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...
Contains excerpts from the 1870-1871 edition of Murray's City Directory. Included is a history of Houston, information about the first Houston city fair, and a street directory.
Special research on the minor empresario contracts for the colonization of Texas from 1825-1834. Article about the pioneer Harrises of Harris County, Texas.
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 reminiscences of C. C. Cox and a group of recollections from other early Texans from the Austin papers published in 1903. Includes an article about the re-establishment of the Tejas missions.
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 an excerpt from Frederick Olmstead's "A Journey Through Texas", which describes his travel by horseback through the state. Also includes an excerpt from "Diary & Letters of Josiah Gregg", which describes Gregg's experiences in the Houston...