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Carregando... Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markersde Betty Dooley Awbrey
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This guide to more than 2500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)917.640463History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America South Central U.S. Texas StatewideClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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One marker, for Gainesville, particularly stood out. It describes an incident in 1862 where 42 men were summarily hanged (and two more shot trying to escape) on charges of conspiracy and insurrection. The historical marker makes the Great Hanging a triumph of Confederate vigilance over a nefarious scheme to destroy the local government, murder officials, and bring in Federal troops; what actually happened was a few sham trials followed by a mass lynching, the largest in American history (see Frontier Defense in the Civil War for more).
If it were up to me, I’d keep the old, “politically incorrect” markers – removing them reminds me too much of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth – but put up new ones alongside. (To be fair, perhaps that’s already been done; this book is 20+ years old). ( )