Emily D. West and the "Yellow Rose of Texas" myth / Phillip Thomas Tucker ; foreword by Mario Marcel Salas.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781476613284 (e-book)
- West, Emily D., 1801-
- West, Emily D., 1801- -- Legends
- Yellow rose of Texas
- Free African Americans -- Texas -- Biography
- African American women -- Texas -- Biography
- Free African Americans -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- Biography
- African American women -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- Biography
- San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836
- Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) -- Siege, 1836
- Texas -- Biography
- 976.4/04092 B 23
- F390.W47 T83 2014eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emily D. West, the popular myth and legend -- Emily D. West's birth in New Haven -- A new life and adventure beckons -- Texas bound -- Slaughter at the Alamo -- Muddy roads leading to San Jacinto -- Climactic showdown at San Jacinto -- Popular myth-making and the creation of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" -- Emily after the fiery storm of San Jacinto -- Epilogue.
"The real Yellow Rose was an ordinary but also quite remarkable free Black woman from the North, Emily D. West. This is the first full-length biography of her--which explores the evolution of one of the most popular myths in American, Texas and Western history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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