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Although many historians have studied Reconstruction, few have sought to determine how the turbulent era of reunification and readjustment after the Civil War was played out on a local level. In this work, historian Randolph B. Campbell examines six Texas counties during that period, revealing a diversity of experience that challenges popular generalizations. The counties Campbell explored - Dallas, Colorado, Harrison, Jefferson, McLennan, and Nueces...
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A piper of paradox -- It was barefooted kind of life -- The boy senator -- The senator takes a wife -- Sally Rand and W. Lee O'Daniel -- Instant war -- How to use power -- "We're fixin' to inaugurate a governor" -- "A term of my own" -- Land : it's what Texas is made up of -- Shivers' lieutenants -- Gas, gasoline and roads -- The piper plays -- Teachers' pets and more roads -- But there aren't any keys! -- The lobby takes a tax plan -- The mean one...
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Four men played leading roles in the political drama that unfolded in South Texas during the first decades of this century:
James B. Wells, who ruled as boss of Cameron County and served as leading conservative spokesman of the Democratic Party in Texas;
Archer (Archie) Parr, whose ruthless tactics and misuse of public funds in Duval County established him as one of the most notoriously corrupt politicians in Texas history;
Manuel Guerra,
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