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16. Texas History before Annexation to the United
States (1519-1845)
Barker, Nancy Nichols, ed. The French Legation in Texas.
Vol. 1: Recognition, Rupture, and Reconciliation; Vol.
2: Mission Miscarried. Austin: Texas State Historical Association,
1971-1973. (Documents relating to the diplomatic relations between
France and the Republic of Texas between 1838 and 1846, the majority
authored by Alphonse Dubois de Saligny, French chargé d'affaires
to the Republic. Index [which is in Vol. 2) shows that the documents
deal with other aspects of Texas history during the era of the
Republic, as well as French-Texan diplomacy.) RGC: F 390 .B335
1971-
Berlandier, Jean Louis. Journey to Mexico during the Years
1826 to 1834. Translated by Sheila M. Ohlendort, Josette M.
Bigelow, and Mary M. Standifer. 2 vols. Austin: Texas State Historical
Association, 1980. (Has been called "the best scientific
study of Texas during the colonial period." Much about the
Anglo-American settlers and their towns, farms, and ranches.)
NRG, RGC: F 1213 .B4713
Bollaert, William. William Bollaert's Texas. Edited by
W. Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler. (The American Exploration
and Travel Series.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.
(Texas during the time of the Republic. Good picture of social
life in Texas just prior to annexation.) NRG: F 390 .B682 1956
Castañeda, Carlos, ed. The Mexican Side of the Texan
Revolution. New York: Arno Press, 1975. (Contents: Writings
by Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, R. Martinez
Caro, V. Filisola, J. Urrea, and J. M. Tornel y Mendivil.) RGC,
RVS: F 390 .C317 1976
Celiz, Francisco. Diary of the Alarcon Expedition into Texas:
1718-1719. Translated by Fritz Leo Hoffmann. Los Angeles:
Quivira Society, 1935. (Records founding of San Antonio and the
mission of the Alamo. Author was a priest from Coahuila in New
Spain [Mexico].) EVC: F 389 .C33 1935
Chapa, Juan Bautista. Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690.
Edited by William C. Foster. Translated by Ned f. Brierley. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1997. PIN: F 1316 .C4613 1997
Chariton, Wallace O. 100 Days in Texas: The Alamo Letters.
Plano, Tex.: Wordware Publishing Co., 1990. (Documents relating
to the Texas Revolution between December 2, 1835 and March 17,
1836. Most, but not all, are letters. While the focus is on the
defence of the Alamo, there is much information on other aspects
of the Texan struggle for independence.) NRG, RVS: F 390 .C47
1990
De Boer, Marvin E., comp. Destiny by Choice: The Inaugural
Addresses of the Governors of Texas. Fayetteville: University
of Arkansas Press, 1992. NRG, RGC, RVS: Reference J 87 .T415 1992
Dubois de Saligny, Alphonse. Alphonse in Austin: Being Excerpts
from the Official Letters Written to the French Foreign Ministry,
with Diverse Notes Concerning the Pig War. Selected and translated
by Katherine Hart. Austin: Encino Press, 1967. NRG, RGC: F 390
.D82 (Both copies are 1-day reserve items. Ask at Circulation
Desk.)
Duval, John C. The Adventures of Big Foot Wallace, the Texas
Ranger and Hunter. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1966. ("Well-written account of a fascinating Texas Ranger
and hero." Collaborative effort between Wallace and Duval,
who were close friends. "The work contains dramatizations
and some downright fiction." Account of Mier Expedition generally
reliable.) NRG, RGC: F 390 .W25 1966
Edward, David B. History of Texas; or, The Emigrant's, Farmer's
and Politicians's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil, and Productions
of that Country: Arranged Geographically from Personal Observation
and Experience. With a new introduction by Margaret S. Henson.
Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993. (Reprint of
1836 ed. Author, born in Scotland, came to Texas in 1830. Critical
of Anglo-Texans. Many documents, full and extracts, from Mexican
laws and regulations concerning colonization, justice, and trade.
Full text of Mexican Constitution of 1824.) CYP, EVC, PIN: F 389
.E25 1990
Filisola, Vicente. Memoirs for the History of the War in Texas.
Translated by Wallace Woolsey. 2 vols. Austin: Eakin Press, 1985,
1987. (Abridgement of the original work, written in 1848-1849.
General Filisola was second in command to General Antonio López
de Santa Anna in the Texas campaign of 1836. Written in the third
person. The primary source aspect begins with Chapter 26 of Volume
I.) NRG, RVS: F 390 .F4913 1985
Glass, Anthony. Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass
and the Texas Trading Frontier, 1790-1810. Edited by Dan L.
Flores. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.
RGC: F 389 .G52 A33 1985
Goeth, Ottilie Fuchs. Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother,
1805-1915. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1982. NRG, RGC: F 392
.T47 G6313 1982
Gray, William F. From Virginia to Texas, 1835: Diary of Wm.
F. Gray, Giving Details of His Journey to Texas and Return in
1835-1836 and Second Journey to Texas in 1837. Houston, Tex.:
Fletcher Young, 1965. (Gray attended the Convention at Washington-on-the
Brazos in March 1836. Interesting characterizations of leading
Texans of the era.) CYP: F 390 .G77.
Holley, Mary Austin. Texas. Austin: Texas State Historical
Association, 1991. (Reprint of 1836 ed. Part emigrant guide, part
history, part document collection. Many important documents printed
related to Mexican and revolutionary eras.) CYP: F 389 .H763 1990.
Houstoun, Matilda. Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, or Yachting
in the New World. Austin, Tex.: W. Thomas Taylor Book Publishers,
1991. (Written by a wealthy Englishwoman who visited Texas in
1842 in her husband's private yacht. Only saw Galveston-Houston
area. Pictures Texas as a land of promise and Texans as a much
maligned people. Observations on social life in the Republic,
on traveling conditions, climate, slavery, etc. ) RVS: F 390 .H88
1991
Hunter, Robert Hancock. Narrative of Robert Hancock Hunter,
1813-1902: From His Arrival in Texas, 1822, through the Battle
of San Jacinto. Mesquite, Tex: Ide, 1982. RVS: F 389 .H87
1982
Jackson, Jack, ed. Imaginary Kingdom: Texas as Seen by the
Rivera and Rubî Military Expeditions, 1727 and 1767.
With annotations by William C. Foster. Austin: Texas State Historical
Association, 1995. (Primary sources documents relating to these
expeditions. Portions of the book are secondary source essays.)
NRG, RGC: F 389 .R58 1995
Jenkins, John Holland. Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs
of John Holland Jenkins. Edited by John Holmes Jenkins, III.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. (Author was in Houston's
army in the Revolution and later served in the Texas Rangers.
Fought in last battle of the Civil War.) NRG, RGC: F 390 .J4 1987
Jones, Anson. Memoranda and Official Correspondence Relating
to the Republic of Texas, its History and Annexation. New
York: Arno Press, 1973. NRG, PIN, RGC: F 390 .J76 1973. (Other
copies, with different publishers and publication dates are also
at NRG and RGC.)
Linn, John J. Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas. Austin,
Texas: State House Press, 1986. (Reprint of 1883 edition. Irish-born
author came to Texas in 1829. Had first-hand knowledge of the
General Council of 1835, the Convention of 1836, the Battle of
Gonzales, the San Jacinto campaign, the Congress of the Republic
of Texas, Indian fighting, etc. Some documents included by Houston
and others. Focus is the era of the Texas Revolution and the years
of the Republic that followed.) RVS: F 389 .L56 1986
Matovina, Timothy M., comp. The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts
and Perspectives. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
{Contents: All known accounts of the Battle of the Alamo by local
Mexican Texans living in San Antonio at the time. First dated,
March 11, 1836, the last, April 19, 1914. Most written long after
the event.) EVC, NRG, RVS: F 390 .M485 1995
McCutchan, Joseph D. Mier Expedition Diary: A Texas Prisoner's
Account. Edited by Joseph Milton Nance. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1978. RVS: F 390 .M123
Morfi, Juan Agustin. History of Texas, 1673-1779. 2 vols.
Edited by Carlos E. Castañeda. Albuquerque, N.M.: Quivira
Society, 1935. (Technically, a secondary source, but Father Morfi
was a Franciscan missionary who was in Texas and observed the
missions there in 1777-78. Provides insights into the life of
the missions, villages, and presidios, as well as on Indian tribes.
Much of what historians know about eighteenth-century Texas comes
from this work. Manuscript probably written between 1778 and 1783.)
NRG, RGC: F 389 .M72 1967
Muir, Andrew Forest, ed. Texas in 1837: An Anonymous, Contemporary
Narrative. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. (Has been
called "the best description of the Republic during its first
year . . . that has come to light." RVS: F 390 .T375 1986
Navarro, José Antonio. Defending Mexican Valor in Texas:
José Antonio Navarro's Historical Writings, 1853-1857.
Edited by David R. McDonald and Timothy M. Matovina. Austin, Tex.:
State House Press, 1995. (Reminiscences of an eyewtiness to the
participation of San Antonio Tejanos during the Mexican struggle
for independence from Spain in the second decade of the nineteenth
century.) F 390 .N3813 1995
Peña, Jose Enrique de la. With Santa Anna in Texas:
A Personal Narrative of the Revolution. Translated and edited
by Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,
1975. (Peña asserts that Crockett surrendered after the
Alamo fell, then was executed at Santa Anna's orders.) CYP, EVC,
NRG, PIN, RGC RVS: F 390 .P3313
Roemer, Ferdinand. Texas: With Particular Reference to German
Immigration and the Physical Appearance of the Country, Described
through Personal Observation. Translated by Oswald Mueller.
San Marcos: German-Texas Heritage Society, 1983. (By a German
scientist who visited Texas between 1845 and 1847. Writen in 1849.
"One of the first scientific investigations of Texas made
by someone qualified to do so.") NRG, RGC: F 391 .R715 1983
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de. The Eagle: The Autobiography
of Santa Anna. Edited by Ann Fears Crawford. Austin, Tex.:
State House Press, 1988. NRG, PIN, RVS F 1232 .S23 A32 1988. (An
earlier edition, with different publication data, is at RGC.)
Seguin, Juan N. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected
Correspondence of Juan N. Seguin. Edited by Jesus F. de la
Teja. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1991. RGC, RVS: F 390 .S465
1991
Sheppard, Lorna Geer. An Editor's View of Early Texas: Texas
in the Days of the Republic as Depicted in The Northern Standard.
Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1998. (Hybrid source: Author has compiled
and commented upon many excerpts from the newspaper [published
in Clarksville on the Red River in northeastern Texas]. They were
written by editor Charles DeMorse. Chapters on different subjects,
including Native Americans, agriculture, immigrants, law and order,
rivers of Texas, inner workings of the Republic, love and marriage,
relations with Mexico, and annexation to the United States.) EVC:
F 390 .S494 1998
Sterne, Adolphus. Hurrah for Texas!: The Diary of Adolphus
Sterne, 1838-1851. Edited by Archie P. McDonald. Austin: Eakin
Press, 1986. (Diary entries actually begin in 1840. Author a prominent
citizen of Nacogdoches. Much about people, politics, daily life,
and business.) RVS: F 390 .S83 1986. (An earlier edition, with
different publication data, is at EVC and RGC.)
Texas. Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention,
Assembled at the City of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for
the Purpose of Framing a Constitution for the State of Texas.
Austin: Shoal Creek Publishers, 1974. (This is a facsimile reproduction
of the 1845 edition.) NRG: JK4825 1845 .A25
Todish, Tim J. and Terry S. Alamo Sourcebook, 1836; A Comprehensive
Guide to the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Austin, Tex:
Eakin Press, 1998. (This is a hybrid source. Most of it is a secondary
source. Chapter 13, "Through Their Own Eyes: How the Participants
Saw the Siege of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution" (pp.136-146),
however, is a collection of excerpts from primary sources.) RGC:
F 390 .T64 1998
(See also The United States: Federalist Era through 1877)