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5. Texas in the Nineteenth Century (Sources covering
more than one time period category in this century)
Baker, T. Lindsey, and Julie P. Baker, eds. Till Freedom Cried
Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. (Clayton Wheat Williams
Texas Life Series.) College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1997. (Oral histories of persons residing in Oklahoma at
the time of the interviews but who had been slaves in Texas before
their emancipation. The interviews were conducted as part of the
Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s.) NRG, RVS: E 444 .T55 1997
Exley, Jo Ella Powell, ed. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine:
Voices of Frontier Women. College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1985. (Excerpts from published and unpublished memoirs.
Time period covered: 1821-1905.) NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: F 381 .T53
1985
Ford, John Salmon. Rip Ford's Texas. Ed. by Stephen B.
Gates. (Personal Narratives of the West.) Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1987. (Coverage begins in 1836 and ends in the 1880s.
Ford was a physician, lawyer, journalist, soldier, and Texas Ranger.)
RVS: F 391 .F67 1987
Goeth, Ottilie Fuchs. Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother,
1805-1915. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1982. NRG, RGC: F 392
.T47 G6313 1982
Green, Mary Rowena (Maverick). Samuel Maverick, Texan, 1803-1870:
A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs. San Antonio:
Privately printed, 1952. NRG: F 390 .M498 G7
Hamilton, Jeff. "My Master," the Inside Story of
Sam Houston and His Times, by His Former Slave, Jeff Hamilton,
as Told to Lenoir Hunt. Rev. ed. Austin, Texas: Statehouse
Press, 1992. (Probably just covers the 1850s and '60s.) CYP, NRG:
F 390 .H84 H35 1992
Houston, Sam. The Autobiography of Sam Houston. Edited
by Donald Day and Harry Herbert Ullom. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1980. (Not a true autobiography but the editors' arrangement
of various primary source material written by Houston into the
form of an autobiography.) PIN, RVS: F 390 .H827 1980
Houston, Sam. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston.
Vol. l, 1839-1845. Vol. 2, 1846-1848. Edited by Madge Thornall
Roberts. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995- . RVS:
F 390 .H833
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
Lee, Nelson. Three Years among the Comanches: The Narrative
of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1991. (Gary Clayton Anderson, in the foreword, calls this
account "a primary source where the author is not honest
with the reader." Read foreword before using. Value lies
mainly in its description of the Texas Rangers and their attitudes,
especially their racial prejudice. Covers period, 1840s-1850s.
Originally published, 1859.) CYP: E 99 .C85 L44 1991
Lincecum, Gideon. Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The
Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum. Edited by Jerry Bryan
Lincecum and Edward Hake Phillips. College Station: Texas A&M
University Press, 1994. (Written in 1870s. Author [1793-1874],
a physician and naturalist, came to Texas first in 1835, then
again, to reside, in late 1840s. Had rather unorthodox medical
and religious views.) NRG: QH 31 .L68 A3 1994
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 General
Council of 1835, Convention of 1836, Battle of Gonzales, San Jacinto
campaign, Congress of the Republic of Texas, Indian fighting,
etc. Copies of documents by other persons, including account of
Battle of Mier. Focus: era of Texas Revolution; some material
on Republic years. Brief material on Cart War, secession, Civil
War, and Reconstruction.) RVS: F 389 .L56 1986
Maverick, Mary Ann. Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick,. Edited
by Rena Maverick Green. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1989. (Reprint of 1921 edition. Author came to Texas in 1838 as
bride of lawyer, politician, and rancher Samuel Maverick. Provides
insights into the social life of San Antonio, the Gonzales area,
and the Matagorda Bay area. Written in 1882, when author was 82.)
CYP: F 391 .M466 1989
Morrell, Z. N. Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness; or Thirty-six
Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras. Waco, Texas: Baylor
University Press, 1976. (Reprint of 1872 edition, with some material
from 1886 edition. Author, a Baptist minister, came to Texas in
1835. Emphasizes author's involvement in the growth of the Baptist
movement in Texas but includes observations and memories of other
aspects of Texas history as well.) PIN: BX 6248 .T4 M8 1976.
Nichols, James Wilson. Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of
James Wilson Nichols, 1820-1887. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1968. (Written when author was 67 years old. Nichols was
at siege of the Alamo. Lived afterwards mostly in Guadalupe-Gonzales
counties area. Fought Indians as a Texas Ranger. Served in the
Mexican War. Was a Unionist in the Civil War.) NRG, RGC: F 392
G65 N652 1968
Pickerell, Annie Doom. Pioneer Women in Texas. Austin,
Tex.: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1970. (Material compiled from recollections
and memoirs of women who came to Texas prior to statehood. Good
material on social life and pioneer folkways.) RGC: F 385 .P5
Reagan, John H. Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession
and the Civil War. Edited by Walter F. McCaleb. New York:
AMS Press. (Reprint of 1906 ed. Author was postmaster-general
of the Confederacy; U.S. congressman and senator after the Civil
War; chairman, Railroad Commission of Texas.) CYP: E 487 .R28
1973
Smithwick, Noah. The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections
of Old Texas Days. Edited by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1983. (Life in Texas between the 1820s
and '60s.) NRG, RGC, RVS: F 389 .S66 1983
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.)
Trammel, Camilla Davis. Seven Pines: Its Occupants and Their
Letters, 1825-1872. Houston: C. D. Trammell, 1986. (Author
[a descendant of Hardin and Davis families, whose members lived
in house mentioned in title in Liberty, Texas] provided introductions
to letters and excerpts from other documents. Interesting material
on Anglo immigration into Mexican Texas, Texas Revolution, family
slaves, Civil War, and Reconstruction.) NRG, RGC: F 394 .L5 T73
1986
Tyler, Ronnie, and Lawrence R. Murphy, eds. The Slave Narratives
of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Encino Press, 1974. NRG, RGC: E 445
.T47 S52. (A reprint is also available at RGC and RVS. Austin,
Tex.: The State House Press, 1997. Same call number except that
1997 is added at the end.)
Urbantke, Carl. Texas is the Place for Me: The Autobiography
of a German Immigrant Youth: Carl Urbantke. Translated from
the German by Ella Urbantke Fischer. Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press,
1970. (Author immigrated to Texas from Silesia in 1853. Became
Methodist minister; founded Blinn College at Brenham. Information
on frontier life and the growth of German settlements in south
central Texas.) NRG, RGC: BX 8495 .U7 A313
Wilbarger, J. W. Indian Depredations in Texas: Reliable Accounts
of Battles, Wars, Adventures, Forays, Murders, Massacres, etc.,
etc., Together with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Most
Noted Indian Fighters and Frontiersmen of Texas. Austin, Texas:
State House Press, 1985. (Facsimile of edition published: Austin,
Texas: Hutchings Printing House, 1889. Technically a secondary
source, but almost all material in the book is by persons who
knew from direct knowledge whereof they wrote. Author/compiler
was a Texas pioneer. Time covered: 1821-1889.) PIN, RVS: E 78
T4 W62 1985
Winfrey, Dorman H., and James M. Day, eds. The Indian Papers
of Texas and the Southwest, 1825-1916. 5 vols. (Fred H. and
Ella Mae Moore Texas History Reprint Series.) Austin: Texas State
Historical Association, 1995. (Official letters, documents, reports,
and treaties relating to Texas Indian tribes. Contents: Vol. I,
1825-1843; Vol. II, 1844-1845; Vol. III, 1846-1859; Vol. IV, 1860-1916;
Vol. V, letters from the Executive Department, 1846-1859. Each
volume indexed separately.) RVS: E 78 S8 T49 1995
Zuber, William Physick. My Eighty Years in Texas. Edited
by Janis Boyle Mayfield. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
(Years covered: 1830-1910. Author was a soldier [Texas Revolution,
Republic of Texas, Civil War], farmer, schoolteacher, and Texas
historian.) EVC, NRG: F 390 .Z815 1971