![]() ![]() The Governor's Task Force - provides a fictional account of the setting up of a group in 1983 to write a report encouraging an interest in Texas history on the eve of the sesquicentenary in 1986. ![]() The book is divided into an introduction and 14 subsequent chapters: Given the success of his previous novels, the company did a first printing of 750,000 copies, 'the largest in the company's history.' Chapters Bonnell Road for $1 per year to write the manuscript.Īt 1,076 pages, it was the longest Michener novel published by Random House. Governor Bill Clements offered him access to numerous state archives and research staff at the University of Texas at Austin. Michener did extensive research on the novel in Texas, receiving much support from the state government. Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research. Michener (1907-1997), based on the history of the Lone Star State. ![]() Texas (1985) is a novel by American writer James A. ![]()
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