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...
These documents discuss the fortifications of Galveston which comprise the harbor defenses. The documents talk about the forts as they were in 1937 when the paper was written as well as the earlier history of the fortifications and who was in...
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.
Spanish frontier policy in Texas from 1773-1779; leadership of Gil Ybarbo, and re-occupation of East Texas. Narratives about Valentine Bennet and Marie Bennet Urwitz, and Thomas J. Pilgrim.
"These three volumes tell the story of a courtship that began between two people who
had never seen each other, and lasted for fifty-six years. Most people know this couple as Rev. William and Mrs. Audrey Hoffman Lawson. Audrey wrote to William on...
These papers describe the history of the Rice Institute from the new foundation and endowment for education to the departments on campus in the 1920s. The Rice Institute later became Rice University.
Containing a miscellaneous directory of state, county and city governments, educational institutions, churches, banks incorporated companies, secret and benevolent societies, etc., a street guide and householder's directory, an alphabetically...
