Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas

Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

352 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional slow-paced
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In 1838 Texas vice president Mirabeau B. Lamar, flush from the excitement of a successful buffalo hunt, gazed from a hilltop toward the paradise at his feet and saw the future. His poetic eye admired the stunning vista before him, with its waverin...

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