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8. Early Texas Statehood (1846-1861)
Barry, James Buckner. Buck Barry: Texas Ranger and Frontiersman.
Edited by James K. Greer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1984. CYP: F 391 .B28
Chapman, Helen. News from Brownsville: Helen Chapman's Letters
from the Texas Frontier, 1848-1852. Edited by Caleb Coker.
Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992. (Correspondence
of New Englander wife of quartermaster at Fort Brown. Comments
on women's roles on the frontier, chidcare, diet, slavery, temperance,
relationships between Texans and Mexicans.) PIN: F 394 .B88 C47
1992
Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh. Monterrey is Ours! The Mexican War Letters of Lt. Dana, 1845-1847. Edited by Robert H. Ferrell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. (Only the first five chapters have to do with Texas.) CYP: E 411 .D25 1990
Hart, Katherine, and Elizabeth Kemp, eds. Lucadia Pease and
the Governor: Letters, 1850-1857. Austin: Encino Press, 1974.
(Letters written by Lucadia and Elisha Marshall Pease to one another
and to other family members. Pease was a candidate for governor
of Texas in 1851 and was elected to that office in 1853 and 1855.
Much of the material is personal. Reveals aspects of life in Texas
during the period.) NRG: F 391 .P35 L8
Heintzelman, Samuel Peter. Fifty Miles and a Fight: Major Samuel
Peter Heinzelman's Journal of Texas and the Cortina War. Edited
with an introduction by Jerry Thompson. Austin: Texas State Historical
Association, 1997.(Coverage: April 17, 1859-December 31, 1860.
Pennsylvanian Heintzelmann commanded U.S. Army troops at Fort
Duncan and Camp Verde in Texas and, most notably, Brownsville
area during the so-called"Cortina War" of 1859-1860.
While the journal focuses on that conflict, there is interesting
material on other subjects, including the early stages of the
secession crisis.) RVS: F 391 .C77 H45 1998
Olmsted, Frederick Law. A Journey through Texas, or, a Saddle-Trip
on the Southwestern Frontier. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1978. (Trip by a New Yorker in the mid-1850s. Has much
to say about slavery and daily life of Anglo and German settlers.)
NRG, RGC: F 391 .O512 1978. (RGC copy is on 2-hour reserve. Ask
at Circulation Desk.)
Parker, W. B. Notes Taken during the Expedition Commanded by
Capt. R. B. Marcy, U.S.A., through Unexplored Texas, in the Summer
and Fall of 1854. Austin: Texas State Historical Association,
1990. (Reprint of the 1856 edition.) RVS: F 391 .P24 1990.
Pike, James. The Scout and Ranger: Being the Personal Adventures
of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, as a Texas Ranger,
in the Indian Wars. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. (Written
in 1865. Northern-born author came to Texas in late 1850s. In
1859-'61 was a Texas Ranger. Saw almost continual action in campaigns
against the Indians on the frontier. Account generally very accurate.)
NRG: F 391 P63 1972
Reid, Samuel Chester. The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's
Texas Rangers, or, The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of
the United States in Mexico, 1846. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for
Libraries Press, 1970. (Reprint of 1847 ed. Based on Reid's field
account. Has been called "the best contemporary account of
the Texas Rangers in the northern campaigns of the Mexican War.")
RVS: E 405.1 .R35 1970
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. Written in
1849. "One of the first scientific investigations of Texas
made by someone qualified to do so.") NRG, RGC: F 391 .R715
1983
[See also: Texas in the Nineteenth Century (Sources covering more
than one time period category in this century)]