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Spellman is professor of history at Wharton Junior College
A muralist
Gregg Cantrell traces Austin's early life from his privileged boyhood as the son of the Missouri mining baron Moses Austin to his family's humiliating financial downfall after the War of 1812
while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque
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Texian Macabre Books Spellman is professor of historyMandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his bellybut probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged "harsh epithets" with David James Jones, a hero of the Texas Revolution. When words failed, Jones closed the argument with his blade. Such affrays were common in Houston, the fledgling capital of the Republic of Texas. This one, however, was singular. Wood was a gentleman and Jones a member of a