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Title: Gone to Texas
Subtitle: A History of the Lone Star State
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Narrator: Jacob Sommer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 28 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-24-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 71 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, the audiobook offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and always in a struggle with the land, created a history and an idea of Texas.
Members Reviews:
Good history from year zero through about 1962
Would you listen to Gone to Texas again? Why?
GTT has a lot of specific election and demographic data about Texas, it is a good reference for that sort thing.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Gone to Texas?
The early history of Texas and the details about the various Texas Native American tribes.
Any additional comments?
The author is clearly a liberal Democrat. That's fine for most of the book, but it distorts his telling of the history of post WWII Texas.
To give you one example, he connects Lee Harvey Oswald with vague 'conservative groups'. He never mentions that Oswald was literally a card carrying Communist.
The narrator has an excellent reading voice, but he was let down by an incompetent producer. Sommer has no idea how to pronounce the many Tejano based personal and place names we use in Texas.
It took me a while to figure out who this 'Juan Sagwin' person was for example. I'd never heard of 'U-va-lee' Texas, which is really pronounced 'U-vall-dee'. Many names and place names are mangled this way.
It's the job of the audio book producer to catch these kinds of mistakes, not the narrator.
Texas nationalism
Good understanding of Texas. listened to it three times for my history class. made life so much easier.
Enjoyable
Like other Texans stated, it would be preferable if the narrator was more familiar with the Texas pronunciation of places.
Great book, Good information, so so narrator
As a third generation Texan who grew up in Corpus Christi, I enjoyed this book. I learned a lot. The narrator was easy to understand, but he needed to talk with a Texas history teacher in Texas to learn how to pronounce some things Texas. When he mentioned the Karen-Kawa Indians I had no idea what he was talking about until he mentioned they were on the Gulf coast, then I realized he was talking about the Karankawa Indians. Anahuac was butchered also. Oh well, I'll get over it.
Excellent book on Texas History
Would you consider the audio edition of Gone to Texas to be better than the print version?
Not sure...if the print version has pictures then I would say no, but if it's entirely published text, then I'd say sure.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Gone to Texas?
The events surrounding Texas Independence from Mexico is always fascinating to read about.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator should have learned how to pronounce Texas towns and cities the way they're meant to be pronounced. As a Texas Native, it was extremely frustrating to hear him butcher the names of towns like "Nacogdoces" and "Natchitoches". Even "New Orleans" and "Sabine" were cringe worthy to hear the narrator mispronounce.
