Violence in the Hill Country by Nicholas Keefauver Roland - 9781477330746

Violence in the Hill CountryThe Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era\nAuthor(s): Nicholas Keefauver Roland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477330746, 978-1477330746\nSynopsis\n2022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters\n\nAn in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.\n\n In the nineteenth century, Texass advancing western frontier was the site of one of Americas longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland arg.