Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: From Missouri to Texas
• Chapter Two: The District Judge
• Chapter Three: Civil War, Mexico, and Reconstruction
• Chapter Four: The Senator from Austin
• Chapter Five: More Laws for Texas
• Chapter Six: The Foe of Railroads
• Chapter Seven: At the Court of the Red Sultan
• Chapter Eight: The Elder Statesman
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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About the Author

Lewis L. Gould taught American History at the University of Texas at Austin for more than thirty years and is now a Fellow at the University's Center for American History.