These documents contain a general history of newspapers in Galveston,Texas as well as specific information on individual papers, including the Galveston News and the Galveston Tribune.
Contains stories about early Texas settlers and German immigrants. Includes brief autobiographies about John Rice Jones, Jesse Burnham, Littleton Fowler, and Friedrich Ernst that were published in the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical...
Recollections of Captain Gibson Kuykendall, Abraham Alley, and other early colonists. Additional research about the Houston Land Office and the first Texas railroad and the
Contains selections from the first volume of the New Encyclopedia of Texas. The selections concern the history of cities and notable individuals in southeast Texas.
Contains a section of Charles C. Nott's 1865 book "Sketches in prison camps: a continuation of Sketches of the war". The section describes the experiences of some Yankee prisoners of war from their arrival at Niblett's Bluff, La., to their...
