{"product_id":"austin-david-c-humphrey-9780876111628","title":"Austin: A History of the Capital City Volume 10","description":"State capital and home of the University of Texas, Austin is the one city that belongs to all Texans. This finely written book, illustrated with historic photographs, tells the story of Austin's transformation from an \"Indian haunted\" frontier village into a residential mecca and high-tech hot spot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalled by Sam Houston at its founding the \"most unfortunate site upon earth for the seat of government,\" the infant community struggled for three decades against political enemies and competing towns before winning recognition as the permanent capital. The founding of the University of Texas turned the seat of politics into the seat of education, but Austin's nineteenth-century dreams of becoming a river port and a factory town came to naught. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA slave city in a slave state, Austin cast its lot with the Confederacy. Retaining a frontier flavor into the 1890s, post-Civil War Austin became the headquarters of the Texas gambling fraternity and a magnet for cowmen seeking \"booze and women of the night.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurning the nineteenth-century frontier town into an appealing twentieth-century residential community taxed the energies of civic leaders for several decades. Virtually parkless and with no paved streets in 1900, Austin by the 1940s boasted tree-lined boulevards, a cornucopia of parks and pools, and a leisurely lifestyle. But for African American residents these were years of oppressive segregation. Mexicans encountered similar treatment as Austin became a tri-ethnic community during the 1920s and 1930s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSegregation gradually gave way in a divisive but nonviolent struggle. While adjusting to this, Austin experienced eye-popping expansion. Fearful that Austin would become \"another Houston,\" residents sought to preserve the lifestyle that had made the capital city such an attractive place to live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David C. Humphrey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0876111622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780876111628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas State Historical Assn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.46w x 0.22d","brand":"David C. Humphrey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926725296383,"sku":"9780876111628","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa14c97a-5455-4f01-a083-6e4089d10e0a.jpg?v=1681084660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/austin-david-c-humphrey-9780876111628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}