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Historical person
1812–1883
Elisha M. Pease was a lawyer and politician who took part in the Texas Revolution and later served two terms as governor of Texas from 1853 to 1857. A Unionist during the secession crisis, he opposed Texas joining the Confederacy.
During Reconstruction, military authorities appointed him governor in 1867, but he resigned after conflict over policy and the limits of civilian authority. He supported public education and a stronger, more accountable state government. In dynastic and political terms, Elisha M. Pease was associated with United States.
Larry McMurtry’s Comanche Moon places Elisha M. Pease within the government of frontier Texas during the years when Rangers, settlers and Comanche bands are locked in escalating violence. As governor, Pease represents the civil authority trying to impose policy over a borderland where military expeditions, raids and private vengeance repeatedly outrun the state’s ability to control events.
Series
The Lonesome Dove quartet follows Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call from their first service as young Texas Rangers to old age at the closing of the nineteenth-century frontier. Dead Man’s Walk and Comanche Moon trace their early experiences during the Republic of Texas, the Santa Fe expedition and…
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