TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ransom,Harry Huntt
AU  - Graves,John
AU  - Ransom,Hazel H.
TI  - The Other Texas Frontier
SN  - 9781477306291
AV  - F386.5 .R36 1984eb
U1  - 976.4/009/92 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Texas
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life-Texas
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Pioneers-Texas-Biography
KW  - Texas-Biography
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Spirit of Texas --; The Counter-frontier in Texas --; The Roots of Early Texas Biography --; Ashbel Smith 1805-1886 --; Sherman Goodwin 1814-1884 --; Swante Palm 1815-1899; restricted access
N2  - “One is tempted to say that wherever there was a frontier in America there was a counterfrontier and that the main purpose of this counterfrontier was not only to help man grow or dig or catch or kill his livng but also to put this man in communication with the traditions of his kind and thereby secure to his descendants the benefits of the free mind.” —Harry Huntt Ransom The reflections of Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) in The Other Texas Frontier present an alternative to the stereotypical picture of the brash, blustery heroes of the Texas frontier. Here, in six highly readable essays, Ransom posits a thesis of the counterfrontier: a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens who, he says, were the other Texans—the Texans without guns. Three of the essays are profiles of gifted men from Texas’ nineteenth century: Ashbel Smith, physician, diplomat, and first president of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas; Sherman Goodwin, physician, horticulturalist, bibliophile (and Ransom’s own grandfather); and Swante Palm, Swedish immigrant, bibliographer, and generous patron of the University of Texas libraries. Harry Huntt Ransom, one of Texas’ most accomplished men of letters and for forty-one years an integral part of the University of Texas System as professor, dean, president, and chancellor, leaves an extraordinary legacy to Texas for both his educational and literary service. Though educated out of state, he returned to his native Texas after completion of his PhD at Yale to teach, research, and write in the fields of copyright law, literary history, and bibliography. As founder of the Humanities Research Center, he was squarely in the tradition of the men he was writing about. Compiled and edited after Ransom’s death by his wife, Hazel H. Ransom, the literary sketches of The Other Texas Frontier form a book that Ransom himself had outlined but had not completed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/711013
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477306291
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477306291/original
ER  -