[PDF] Central Texas Diary eBook

Author : General Mier
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292773285

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“An extremely valuable original source on Texas history that heretofore has not been available to scholars or the reading public.” —Donald E. Chipman, Professor of History, University of North Texas Texas was already slipping from the grasp of Mexico when Manuel Mier y Terán made his tour of inspection in 1828. American settlers were pouring across the vaguely defined border between Mexico's northernmost province and the United States, along with a host of Indian nations driven off their lands by American expansionism. Terán’s mission was to assess the political situation in Texas while establishing its boundary with the United States. Highly qualified for these tasks as a soldier, scientist, and intellectual, he wrote perhaps the most perceptive account of Texas' people, politics, natural resources, and future prospects during the critical decade of the 1820s. This book contains the full text of Terán’s diary—which has never before been published—edited and annotated by Jack Jackson and translated into English by John Wheat. The introduction and epilogue place the diary in historical context, revealing the significant role that Terán played in setting Mexican policy for Texas between 1828 and 1832.

Author : Jack Bailey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080618227X

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In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew members—including women—battle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary’s thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context.

Author : Dee G. Tusch
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2018-05-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780997769029

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A journal of interesting people and interesting places in and around central Texas

Author : Janet G. Humphrey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623493676

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A leader in the successful fight for woman suffrage in Texas, Jane Yelvington McCallum (1878–1957) left an absorbing written record of an exceptionally productive life. McCallum was a wife, mother, and clubwoman; unlike most, she was also a suffrage leader, lobbyist, journalist, publicist, Democratic Party worker, and secretary of state. A Texas Suffragist brings to print two of Jane McCallum’s most important unpublished diaries, which cover the period from October 1916 through December 1919. They chronicle the struggle of Texas suffragists to win the vote from the viewpoint of one of the movement’s most active participants, and provide insight into a range of progressive causes—including prohibition, honest government, and the independence and integrity of the University of Texas—that women reformers supported in the World War I era. Editor Janet G. Humphrey has supplemented McCallum’s diaries with a selection of her letters, autobiographical fragments, and sketches that help round out the story of her personal and public life through 1919.

Author : Dee G. Tusch
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780997769067

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This book is a collection of essays that are the result of our observation of plants and animals that are in our area. It also includes studies of history of interesting subjects in Central Texas