Texas History Loses an Eminence

December 2, 2013, 1:00 PM, CST

The San Antonio Express-News reports today that esteemed Texas historian T.R. Fehrenbach died on Sunday of a congenital heart condition at San Antonio’s Northeast Baptist Hospital. Fehrenbach was 88.

Among Fehrenbach’s more than 20 books, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans was the best known and most widely read. Fehrenbach was also a longtime columnist at the Express-News and a former head of the Texas Historical Commission.

In October 2012, Observer contributor Saul Elbein interviewed Fehrenbach for a feature on the author and his book’s lasting legacy.

<div id="pico"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34303" src="https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-150x152.jpeg" alt="Fehrenbach" width="150" height="152" srcset="https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-150x152.jpeg 150w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-360x366.jpeg 360w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-100x101.jpeg 100w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-466x475.jpeg 466w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-243x247.jpeg 243w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach-60x60.jpeg 60w, https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fehrenbach.jpeg 756w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />The San Antonio Express-News <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/obituaries/article/Texas-historian-author-and-Express-News-5026139.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports today</a> that esteemed Texas historian T.R. Fehrenbach died on Sunday of a congenital heart condition at San Antonio’s Northeast Baptist Hospital. Fehrenbach was 88.
Among Fehrenbach’s more than 20 books, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans was the best known and most widely read. Fehrenbach was also a longtime columnist at the Express-News and a former head of the Texas Historical Commission.
In October 2012, Observer contributor <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/fehrenbachs-texas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Saul Elbein interviewed Fehrenbach for a feature on the author and his book’s lasting legacy</a>.
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