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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 826
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains a concise history of the state, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties, and personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families.
Author: Eric Kunzé
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This index lists names of persons and the page numbers from the Lewis Publishing Company's 1893 history of Texas, including Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee, and Burleson Counties. Pages can be requested from the Texas State Library through interlibrary loan.
Author: John Holmes Jenkins
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0292788606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented.” —Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather’s writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston’s army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships—and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. “Fascinating . . . A commendable job.” —The New York Times “[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword