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Ashbel Smith of Texas: Pioneer, Patriot, Statesman, 1805-1886
Contributor(s): Silverthorne, Elizabeth (Author)

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ISBN: 0890969744     ISBN-13: 9780890969748
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
OUR PRICE: $18.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: December 1982
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients)
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: B
LCCN: 82000739
Series: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.90 lbs) 292 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - South
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Though three times burned in effigy for his political activities, Ashbel Smith was an admired and influential leader in nineteenth-century Texas. A doctor educated at Yale and abroad, the "father of Texas medicine" championed higher standards of medical practice and helped found the state's medical society. He worked persistently to establish free public education in Texas and in his later years led the way in founding Prairie View State Normal School, the University of Texas (which he also served as regent), and the university's medical school at Galveston.

In the first full-length biography of this important Texas statesman, Elizabeth Silverthorne portrays not only a very human and exciting personality but also the world he lived in, as seen through his eyes, and the part he played in shaping that world. Using public records, Smith's own journals, memoranda, and personal papers and the writings of his prominent contemporaries, she presents the tale of a vital, complex life "so inextricably woven into the history of Texas . . . that whenever we examine any of the burning issues of the day-finance, politics, religion, transportation, immigration, agriculture, warfare, medicine, or education-we find Ashbel Smith there, analyzing, expounding, crusading, searching for the truth to open the way to a better life" for Texans.

 
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