TEXAS the marvelous, the state of the six flags [SOLD]

TEXAS the marvelous, the state of the six flags 

by Nevin O. Winter

The Page Company, Boston

Hardback, first edition, first printing, 1916, 343 pages, decorative end pages, with a map and fifty-four plates of which six are in color, top edge gilt, multi-color design on dark blue fabric cover, with gold pictorial images. Previous owner library label on inside front cover.  Good condition, no pencil markings, etc.

From the Title Page

“Including Accounts of the Spanish Settlement and Establishment of the Indian Missions; the Unfortunate Expedition and Death of La Salle; the Romance of its Early Settlement and Stories of its Hardy Pioneers; the Nine-year Republic of Texas; Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston; ‘Remember the Alamo’; the Development of the Cattle Ranches; the Great Ranches and a Visit to a Million-acre Ranch; the Growing Cities; the Rehabilitation of Galveston; Along the Troublesome Mexican Border; the Uttermost Corner of Texas; the Wonderful Gulf Coast; the Panhandle; the Black Waxy Belt; the Timber Region; the Llano Estacada; the Disappearing Desert; and the General Development of this Marvelous State”