| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Pioneer Jewish Texans/ Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern. |
| Author: |
Ornish, Natalie. |
| Published: |
College Station :Texas A&M University Press, : 2011., |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 362 p.) :ill., maps. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction to a people -- The adventurers: conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers: Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers: opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen: constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers: giants of Texas'sgreat cattleherds -- The financiers: new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters: from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian: Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants: some called them princes -- The significant merchants: laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators: the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists: vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers: from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers: justice for all. |
| Subject: |
Jews - Biography. - Texas - |
| Subject: |
Texas - Drama. - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603444330/Full text available: |
| ISBN: |
9781603444330 (electronic bk.) |