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What Went Wrong? How Arrogant Ignorance and Cultural Misconceptions Turned Deadly at the San Antonio Courthouse, March 19, 1840

Although the Council House Fight is well written about in the annals of early Texas history, this all-encompassing study will reveal a whole new picture. Unlike previous works that maintained one point of view, multiple perspectives were analyzed and explored to allow a more comprehensive view of the Council House Fight to emerge. Primary focus on social and cultural misunderstandings, as well as the mounting hostility between the Penateka Comanche and Texians across the frontier, will demonstrate their general distrust and hatred of the other. Detailing their complicated relationship will prove that neither the Texians nor the Comanche were without blame, and both shared responsibility for the deterioration of events on and before March 19, 1840.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc6120
Date05 1900
CreatorsCopeland, Cristen Paige
ContributorsMcCaslin, Richard B., Smith, F. Todd, Hagler, D. Harland
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
CoverageUnited States - Texas - Bexar County - San Antonio
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copeland, Cristen Paige, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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