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A WILD AND VIVID LAND
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE
SOUTH TEXAS BORDER
By Jerry Thompson
With more than 150 images, many never before published,
historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize-
winning historian William H. Goetzmann has called a "wild and
vivid land." From the Coahuiltecan Indians and the Spanish col-
onizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the
cattlemen and wildcatters who conquered the brush country,
Thompson details six centuries of exciting and entertaining his-
tory in a thoroughly researched and comprehensive text, lavishly
illustrated by the work of artists Lino Sanchez y Tapia, Theodore
Gentilz, and Frederic Remington and photographers Robert
Runyon, E. O. Goldbeck, and Russell Lee, among many others.
It was on the South Texas border
that the Mexican War began and the
Civil War ended. Over the centuries
the border area has been the setting
for extraordinary endeavors and
events, retrieved here for the read-
er's enchantment in A Wild and Vivid
Land.
The exciting history presented
here is distinguished by scrupulous
scholarship and by the author's clear
love for South Texas. This book of
remarkable pictures and stories is the kind of book one comes
back to again and again, the kind of book that causes one to
muse and dream on the past. South Texas becomes vivid in the
mind-a singular and unforgettable place.
Jerry Thompson, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities
at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, is among the
best and most prolific historians of the Civil War in the Southwest.
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