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11. Texas in the Late Nineteenth Century (The
Frontier, Cattle Business,Outlaws, Populism, etc.)
Abbott, E. C., and Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them
North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1955. (English-born Abbott trailed longhorn cattle
from Texas to Nebraska and beyond to Montana between 1871 and
1883. Much about trailing, Texas cowboys, etc. Most relevant pages
are 3-100, but there are scattered references to Texas on pp.
196-230.) PIN: F 596 .A22 1955
Adams, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail
Days. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. NRG, RGC:
PS 3501 .S2152 L6 1964
Barthelme, Marion K., ed. Women in the Texas Populist Movement:
Letters to the Southern Mercury. College Station: Texas A&M
University Press, 1997. (The Southern Mercury was a Dallas-based
weekly newspaper sponsored by the Farmer's Alliance. Letters cover
1888-1895.) RVS: F 391 .W8 1997
Bode, E. A. A Dose of Frontier Soldiering: The Memoirs of Corporal
E. A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1994. (Author, a German immigrant,
served in Victorio Campaign of 1880 but spent most of his service
in garrison duty at forts Sill and Gibson in the Indian Territory
and on the Texas frontier. Memoirs show life of the ordinary foot
soldier in the West. Chapter 9, titled, "The Texas Frontier,
1881-1882," recounts trip through Eastland, Coleman, Forts
Concho, McKavett, Stockton, Davis, Quitman, and on to El Paso
and Fort Bliss. Good description of Texas Rangers in Big Bend
area.) RVS: F 786 .B66 1994
Carter, Robert Goldthwaite. On the Border with Mackenzie: or
Winning West Texas from the Comanches. Mattituck, N.Y.: J.
M. Carroll, 1989. ("One of the best sources on the Federal
cavalry campaigns against the Indians in the 1870s." Author,
outspoken and very prejudiced, served with Mackenzie.) EVC: F
391 .C337 198
Dobie, J. Frank. A Vaquero of the Brush Country, Partly from
the Reminiscences of John Young. New ed. Boston, Mass.: Little,
Brown, 1957. RGC, RVS: F 391 .D63 1957
Dumont, Ella Elgar Bird. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography
of a West Texas Pioneer. (Barker Texas History Series.) Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1988. NRG, RGC, RVS F 391.4 .D86 A3
1988
Durham, George (as told to Clyde Wantland). Taming the Nueces
Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1962. NRG: F 392 .N82 D965 1962
Gillett, James B. Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881.
Edited by M. M. Quaife. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1976. (Events center on Central and Southwest Texas.) NRG, RGC,
RVS: F 391 .G473 1976
Greene, A. C. The Last Captive. Austin, Tex.: Encino Press,
1972. (Contents: Account of a Texan captured by Apaches.) RGC,
RVS: E 99 .A6 L443
Hardin, John Wesley. The Life of John Wesley Hardin: As Written
by Himself. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. (Author
was a Texas outlaw in the post-Civil War era.) NRG: F 391 .H26
1961
Hastings, Frank S. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography
in Which Unfamiliar Facts Bearing upon the Origin of the Cattle
Industry in the Southwest and of the American Packing Business
are Stated, and Characteristic Incidents Recorded. Austin:
Texas State Historical Association, 1985. NRG: SF 194.2 .H37 A3
1985.
Holden, William Curry. Rollie Burns, or, An Account of the
Ranching Industry on the South Plains. (A Southwest Landmark.)
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. (Originally
published, 1932. Rewritten from manuscripts provided by Burns,
who is the narrator of these reminiscences. Covers years 1861-1931.
Early chapters deal with North Texas area.) RVS: F 391 .B93 H65
1986
Hunter, John Marvin, ed. The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting
Sketches of Early Cowboys and their Experiences on the Range and
on the Trail during the Days that Tried Men's Souls-True Narratives
Related by Real Cowpunchers and Men who Fathered the Cattle Industry
in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. NRG, RGC,
RVS: F 596 .T72 1985
Kennon, Bob . From the Pecos to the Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography. As Told to Famon F. Adams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. (Author born on a ranch near Cedar Hill, Texas (near Dallas) in 1876. While still a child moved to a ranch near Abilene. At age 12, ran away from home to become a cowboy. In 1897 helped trail cattle herd to Montana, where he remained the remainder of his life. Texas material is on pp. 11-57). CYP: F 596 .K4 1965
Lane, Lydia Spencer. I Married a Soldier, or, Old Days in the
Old Army. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
(Military and pioneer life on the frontier [Texas and New Mexico]
after the Civil War.) NRG, RGC F 786 .L3 1987
Lanning, Jim, and Judy Lanning, eds. Texas Cowboys: Memories
of the Early Days. College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1984. (Narratives collected by the Federal Writers' Project
of the WPA in the 1930s.) NEG, RGC, RVS: F 391 .T3813 1984
Lee, Nelson. Three Years among the Comanches: The Narrative
of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1991. CYP: E 99 .C85 L44 1991
Love, Nat. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known
in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick." Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (The first seventeen chapters
are relevant to this course. Author was a former slave from Tennessee.
Only black cowboy to write of his experiences driving cattle up
the Chisholm Trail out of Texas.) NRG: F 594 .L89 1995
Mackenzie, Ranald. Ranald Mackenzie's Official Correspondence
Relating to Texas,1871-1873. Edited by Ernest Wallace.
Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1967. (Author was a popular
and successful U.S army cavalry officer who fought Indians in
western Texas from the Mexican border north to the Panhandle in
the 1870s.) RVS: F 391 .M167 A4 1967
Mackenzie, Ranald. Ranald Mackenzie's Official Correspondence
Relating to Texas,1873-1879. Edited by Ernest Wallace.
Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1968. (Bound with Ranald
Mackenzie's Official Correspondence Relating to Texas,1871-1873.
This book begins after p. 202 of the earlier volume. (Author was
a popular and successful U.S army cavalry officer who fought Indians
in western Texas from the Mexican border north to the Panhandle
in the 1870s.) RVS: F 391 .M167 A4 1967
Matthews, Sallie Reynolds. Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle.
4th ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982.
RVS: F 391 .M453 1982
McConnell, H. H. Five Years a Cavalryman, or, Sketches of Regular
Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866-1871. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1996. CYP: F 391 .M129 1996
McIntire, Jim. Early Days in Texas: A Trip to Hell and Heaven.
Edited by Robert K. DeArment. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1992. (Reprint; originally published, 1902. Author lived,
1846-ca. 1916. Came to Texas from Ohio in 1873. Was a cowboy,
buffalo hunter, Texas Ranger, saloonkeeper, gambler, and outlaw.
Dates often incorrect, as are some details. Read editor's footnotes
for corrections.) RVS: F 391 .M93 1992
Myers, Lois E. Letters by Lamplight: Life in South Texas, 1873-1883.
Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 1991. RGC: F 391 .M94 1991
Sowell, A. J. Rangers and Pioneers of Texas: with a Concise
Account of the Early Settlements, Hardships, Massacres, Battles,
and Wars, by which Texas Was Rescued from the Rule of the Savage
and Consecrated to the Empire of Civilization. Austin, Tex.:
State House Press, 1991. (First published in 1884. Author was
a Texas Ranger. Much detail on the Wichita Indian campaign of
1870, in which Sowell participated. Many quotations [some extensive]
from other primary sources.) NRG: F 391 .S745 1991
[See also: Texas in the Nineteenth Century (Sources covering more
than one time period category in this century)]