Other sections, such as T-AA Bibliography, T-AG Dissertations and Theses, T-AH Biography, and T-AJ Genealogy, also should be consulted for works relating to Texas history. Texas history relating to specific topics generally will be found in the topic section.
T-DB1 Documents of Texas history, 1528-1993. Ernest Wallace, David M. Vigness, George B. Ward, ed. 2nd ed. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr., 2003. 350 p. ill. $24.95 ISBN 0-87611-188-6 (paper)
T-DB1a Gone to Texas: a history of the Lone Star State. Randolph B. Campbell. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2003. xii, 500 p. ill. $35 ISBN 0-19-513842-2, 978-0-19-513842-9 (cloth); 0-19-513843-0, 978-0-19-513843-6 (paper)
T-DB2 Lone Star: a history of Texas and the Texans. T. R. Fehrenbach. Rev. ed. Boulder, CO: Da Capo Pr., 2000. 792 p. ill., map. $25 ISBN 0-306-80942-7 (paper)
T-DB3 Lone Star junction. URL: http://www.lsjunction.com/index.htm
T-DB4 The lonesome plains: death and revival on an American frontier. Louis Fairchild. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr., 2002. 323 p. ill. (West Texas A&M Univ. ser., no. 7) $29.95 ISBN 1-58544-182-1
T-DB5 Major problems in Texas history: documents and essays. Sam W. Haynes, Cary D. Wintz. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. 470 p. ill., maps. (Major problems in American history ser.) $39.16 ISBN 0-395-85833-X (paper)
T-DB6 New handbook of Texas. Ron Tyler, ed. in chief; Douglas E. Barnett, managing ed.; Roy R. Barkley, ed.; Penelope C. Anderson, Mark F. Odintz, assoc. ed. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1996. 6 v. ill. (76 col.), maps. $395-$695 ISBN 0-87611-151-7
T-DB7 The portable handbook of Texas. Roy R. Barkley, Mark F. Odintz, ed. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 2000. ix, 1072 p. ill. $60 ISBN 0-87611-180-0 (cloth)
T-DB8 The taking of Texas: a documentary history. Franklin Madis. Austin: Eakin Pr., 2002. 318 p. ill. $24.95 ISBN 1-57168-683-5 (paper)
T-DB9 Texas. James Alan Marten. Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Pr., 1992. 229 p. ill., 1 map. (World bibliographical ser., v. 144) ISBN 1-85109-184-X
T-DB10 Texas bibliography: a manual on history research materials. Gilbert R. Cruz, James A. Irby, ed. Austin: Eakin Pr., 1982. xii, 337 p. ill. ISBN 0-89015-307-8
T-DB11 Texas, the Lone Star State. Rupert Norval Richardson. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001. 484 p. ill., maps (some col.) $44 ISBN 0-13-028414-9 (paper)
T-DB12 Texas State Historical Association and the Center for Studies in Texas History, University of Texas at Austin. URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/
T-DB13 Texas State Library and Archives Commission. URL: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/general/
T-DB14 Civil War Texas: a history and a guide. Ralph A. Wooster. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1999. 82 p. ill., maps. (Fred Rider Cotten popular history ser., no.14) $7.95 ISBN 0-87611-171-1 (paper)
T-DB15 Texas and Texans in the Civil War. Ralph A. Wooster. Austin: Eakin Pr., 1995. 308 p. ill., maps. $28.95 ISBN 1-57168-042-X (cloth); ISBN 0-585-18364-3 (ebook)
T-DB16 Texas in the Confederacy: an experiment in nation building. Clayton E. Jewett. Columbia, MO: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 2002. 310 p. ill., maps. (Shades of blue and gray ser.) $37.50 ISBN 0-8262-1390-1
T-DB17 Travels in the Confederate states: a bibliography. E. Merton Coulter. Repr. of 1948 ed. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ. Pr., 1994. xiv, 304 p. (American exploration and travel ser., no.11) $14.95 ISBN 0-8071-1952-0 (paper)
T-DB18 Bibliography: Callahan, Jones, Nolan and Taylor counties of Texas. Fane Downs, comp. Abilene: McMurry College, 1985. 31 l.
T-DB19 A bibliography of American county histories. P. William Filby, comp. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985. 449 p. ISBN 0-8063-1126-6
T-DB20 Cracker barrel chronicles: a bibliography of Texas town and county histories. John Holmes Jenkins; fore. by Dorman H. Winfrey. Austin: Pemberton Pr., 1965. xv, 509 p.
T-DB21 Texas county histories: a bibliography. Horace Bailey Carroll, fore. by Walter Prescott Webb. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1943; repr., Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Pub., 1999. xxxii, 200 p. ill. $60 ISBN 1-57898-175-1
T-DB21a Wanted: historic county jails of Texas. Edward A. Blackburn. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr., 2006. xii, 412 p. ill., maps. (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life ser., no. 11) $39.95 ISBN 1-58544-308-5, 978-1-58544-308-6 (cloth); 1-58544-498-7, 978-1-58544-498-4 (paper)
T-DB22 West Texas county histories. Seymour Vaughn Conner. Austin: Texas State Library, Archives Div., 1954. 22 l.
T-DB23 Texas beyond history (TBH). URL: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/
T-DB24 Black cowboys of Texas. Sara R. Massey. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr., 2000. 361 p. ill. (Centennial ser. of the Assoc. of Former Students, Texas A&M Univ., no. 86) $29.95 ISBN 0-89096-934-5
T-DB25 Black Texans: a history of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995. Alwyn Barr. 2nd ed. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1996. 304 p. ill. $15.95 ISBN 0-8061-2878-X (paper); $16.95 ISBN 0-8061-7094-8 (e-book)
T-DB26 Bricks without straw: a comprehensive history of African Americans in Texas. David A. Williams. Austin: Eakin Pr., 1997. 457 p. ill., maps. $29.95 ISBN 1-57168-041-1 (cloth); ISBN 0-585-24275-5 (ebook)
T-DB27 The Indian papers of Texas and the Southwest, 1825-1916. Dorman H. Winfrey, James M. Day, ed.; introd. by Michael L. Tate. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1995, 1966. 5 v. ill., maps. $95 ISBN 0-87611-144-4
T-DB28 Atlas of Texas. Santa Barbara, CA: Maps.com, 2001. 48 p. ill., col. maps. $9.95 ISBN 1930194048 (paper)
T-DB29 Contours of discovery: printed maps delineating the Texas and Southwestern chapters in the cartographic history of North America, 1513-1930. James C. Martin, Robert Sidney Martin; fore. by J. Conrad Dunagen. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc. in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1982. 66 p. ill., 24 maps (some col.) $49.95 ISBN 0-87611-058-8
T-DB30 A historical atlas of Texas. William C. Pool, Edward Triggs, Lance Wren. Austin: Encino Pr., 1975. 190 p. ill., col. maps. $29.95 ISBN 0-88426-033-X (cloth)
T-DB31 Historical atlas of Texas. A. Ray Stephens, William M. Holmes; consulting by Phyllis M. McCaffree. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1989, 1994. 132 p. ill., maps. ISBN 0-585-16551-3 (cloth); $19.95 ISBN 0-8061-2307-9 (paper); $19.95 ISBN 0-585-16551-3 (ebook)
T-DB32 Historical atlas of the American West. Warren A. Beck, Ynez D. Haase. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1989. 156 p. ill., maps. ISBN 0-8061-2193-9 (cloth); $21.95 ISBN 0-8061-2456-3 (paper); $19.95 ISBN 0-585-10096-9 (ebook)
T-DB33 Lure of the land: Texas county maps and the history of settlement. Joe Bertram Frantz, Mike Cox; Roger E. Griffith, ed.; fore. by Garry Mauro. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr. for the Texas General Land Office, 1988. 228 p. ill., maps. ISBN 0-89096-353-3
T-DB34 Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900. James C. Martin, Robert Sidney Martin. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1999. 174 p. ill., maps (some col.) (Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas history repr. ser., no. 18) $39.95 ISBN 0-87611-169-X
T-DB35 Texas gazetteer. Wilmington, DE: American Historical Pub., 1985. 420 p. ISBN 0-937862-78-9
T-DB36 Dictionary of Texas historic places. Lorrie K. Owen, ed. New York: Somerset, 1996. 2 v. ill. $175 ISBN 0-40309-986-2
T-DB37 Ferguson's guide to the roadside history of Texas. Walter Keene Ferguson. Main highways ed. Austin: Tyler Pub. Co., 1977. 280 p. ill., maps.
T-DB38 Roadside history of Texas. Leon Claire Metz. Missoula, MT: Mountain Pr. Pub. Co., 1994. 448p. ill., maps. $30 ISBN 0-87842-293-5 (cloth); $18 ISBN 0-87842-294-3 (paper)
T-DB39 Shadows on the land: an anthology of Texas historical marker stories. Myra Hargrove McIlvain. Austin: Texas Historical Commission, 1984. 89 p.
T-DB40 Texas historic sites atlas. URL: http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/shell-county.htm
T-DB41 Why stop?: a guide to Texas historical roadside markers. Betty Dooley Awbrey, Claude Dooley, Texas Historical Commission, comp. 4th ed. Houston: Lone Star Books, 1999. 565 p. ill. $17.95 ISBN 0-88415-229-4
T-DB42 From sail to steam: four centuries of Texas maritime history, 1500-1900. Richard V. Francaviglia. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1998. 324 p. ill. $34.95 ISBN 0-292-72503-5
T-DB43 Burs under the saddle: a second look at books and histories of the West. Ramon Frederick Adams. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1964, 1989. 610p. $21.95 ISBN 0-8061-2170-X (paper); $48.95 ISBN 0-8061-7109-X (ebook)
T-DB44 More burs under the saddle: books and histories of the West. Ramon Frederick Adams. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1979. 182 p. ISBN 0-8061-1469-X (cloth); $14.95 ISBN 0-8061-2171-8 (paper); $17.95 ISBN 0-585-19838-1 (ebook)
T-DB45 Six-guns and saddle leather: a bibliography of books and pamphlets on western outlaws and gunmen. Ramon Frederick Adams. New rev. and enl. ed. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1969; repr., Mineola, NY: Dover Pub., 1998. 808 p. $24.95 ISBN 0-486-40035-2
T-DB46 I would rather sleep in Texas: a history of the lower Rio Grande Valley and the people of the Santa Anita Land Grant. M. Margaret McAllen Amberson, James A. McAllen, Margaret H. McAllen. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 2003. 655 p. ill. $39.95 ISBN 0-87611-186-X
T-DB47 The path to a modern South: northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Walter L. Buenger. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2001. 342 p. ill., maps. $55 ISBN 0-292-70887-4 (cloth); $27.50 ISBN 0-292-70888-2 (paper)
T-DB48 Alamo sourcebook, 1836: a comprehensive guide to the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Timothy J. Todish, Terry Todish; Ted Spring, ill. Austin: Eakin Pr., 1998. 215 p. ill., maps. $21.95 ISBN 1-57168-152-3; $22.95 ISBN 0-585-21935-4 (ebook)
T-DB49 Encyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Thom Hatch. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. 229 p. ill., maps.
$55 ISBN 0-7864-0593-7
T-DB50 Texian iliad: a military history of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836. Stephen L. Hardin. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1994. 321 p. ill., map. $29.95 ISBN 0-292-73086-1 (cloth); $19.95 ISBN 0-292-73102-7 (paper)
T-DB51 Northern New Spain: a research guide. Thomas Charles Barnes, Thomas H. Naylor, Charles W. Polzer. Tucson, AZ: Univ. of Arizona Pr., 1981. 147 p. ill., maps. $18.95 ISBN 0-8165-0709-0 (paper)
T-DB52 Spain in the Southwest: a narrative history of colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. John L. Kessell. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 2002. 462 p. ill., maps. $34.95 ISBN 0-8061-3407-0
T-DB53 Spanish Texas, 1519-1821. Donald E. Chipman. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1992. 343 p. ill., maps. ISBN 0-292-77656-X (cloth); $19.95 ISBN 0-292-77659-4 (paper); $14.95 ISBN 0-585-18409-7 (ebook)
T-DB54 San Antonio missions. URL: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/2sanantonio/2sanantonio.htm
T-DB55 Teaching Texas history: an all-level resource guide. David C. De Boe. 2nd rev. ed. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1996. 170 p. $15.95 ISBN 0-87611-091-X (paper)
T-DB56 The law comes to Texas: the Texas Rangers, 1870-1901. Frederick Wilkins. Austin: State House Pr., 1999. 403 p. ill. $60 ISBN 1-880510-62-6 (cloth, limited ed.); $29.95 ISBN 1-880510-60-X (cloth); $19.95 ISBN 1-880510-61-8 (paper)
T-DB57 The legend begins: the Texas Rangers, 1823-1845. Austin: State House Pr., 1996. 239 p. ISBN 1-880510-42-1 (cloth, limited ed.); $24.95 ISBN 1-880510-40-5 (cloth); $16.95 ISBN 1-880510-41-3 (paper)
T-DB58 Lone Star justice: the first century of the Texas Rangers. Robert Marshall Utley. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2002; repr., New York: Berkeley Pub. Group, 2003. 370 p. ill., maps. $30 ISBN 0-19-512742-0; $16 ISBN 0-425-19012-9 (paper)
T-DB59 The men who wear the star: the story of the Texas Rangers. Charles M. Robinson III. New York: Random House, 2000. 352 p. ill., maps, 16 p. of plates. ISBN 0-679-45649-X (cloth); $14.95 ISBN 0-375-75748-1 (paper); $23.95 ISBN 0-375-50535-0 (ebook)
T-DB60 Texas Ranger Indian War pensions. Robert W. Stephens. Quanah: Nortex Pr., 1975. 124 p. ISBN 0-89015087-7
T-DB61 Texas Ranger service records, 1830-1846. Frances Terry Ingmire, comp. St. Louis, MO: Ingmire, 1982; repr., Nacogdoches: Ericson Books, 1998. 171 p.
T-DB62 Texas Ranger service records, 1847-1900. Frances T. Ingmire, comp. St. Louis, MO: Ingmire, 1982; repr., Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Pr., 2001. 6 v.
T-DB63 Black Texas women: a sourcebook: documents, biographies, timeline. Ruthe Winegarten. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1996. 339 p. ill. $55 ISBN 0-292-79092-9 (cloth); $24.95 ISBN 0-292-79100-3 (paper)
T-DB64 Black Texas women: 150 years of trial and triumph. Ruthe Winegarten. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1995. 427 p. ill. ISBN 0-292-79087-2 (cloth); $26.95 ISBN 0-292-79089-9 (paper)
T-DB65 Capitol women: Texas female legislators, 1923-1999. Nancy Baker Jones, Ruthe Winegarten. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2000. xiv, 328 p. ill. $45 ISBN 0-29274-062-X (cloth); $22.95 ISBN 0-29274-063-8 (paper)
T-DB66 Las Tejanas: 300 years of history. Teresa Palomo Acosta, Ruthe Winegarten.
Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2003. xvii, 436 p. ill., photos.
(Jack and Doris Smothers ser. in Texas history, life, and culture, no. 10)
$45 ISBN 0-292-74710-1 (cloth); $22.95 ISBN 0-292-70527-1 (paper)
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource about Texas and its early history. Includes photographs of the Texas landscape, popular songs of Texas and the West, a searchable database of over 10,000 "Texians" who lived during the time of the Republic of Texas, and full-text online editions of rare and classic books about Texas.
Also available: netLibrary
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-313) and index.
Also available: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
See T-AB8
See T-AB11
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
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Includes indexes.
See T-AA11
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access to publications, news, and information about fellowships, educational programs, meetings, and membership.
Access to general information about Texas, archives and manuscripts holdings, genealogical resources, and historical documents and artifacts at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center and at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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CIVIL WAR
Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-75) and index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-290) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.
Also available: Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1981. xiv, 289 p. $30 ISBN 0-916107-02-7 (cloth)
Lists more than 500 accounts of travels in the old South during the Civil War, written either at the time or at a later date.
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COUNTY HISTORIES
Comp. by the faculty of the History Dept. of McMurry College. Holdings of the following libraries are noted: McMurry College, Abilene Christian Univ., Abilene Public Library, Hardin-Simmons Univ., Callahan County Library and Museum (Baird), Barker Texas Library (UT-Austin), Clyde Library, City-County Library (Sweetwater), Southwest Collection (Texas Tech Univ.), and Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church Archives at McMurry College. Alumni directories, church membership rolls, and items from the West Texas Genealogical Society bulletin are not included.
Bibliographical footnotes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arranged by county. Includes books, newspaper and periodical articles, and theses. No index.
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ETHNIC HISTORY
GENERAL WORKS:
Archeological and historical research concerning the cultural heritage of Texas. Covers prehistoric Native Americans; Spanish, French, Mexican, and Anglo explorers, missionaries, settlers, soldiers, and traders; German farmers; African-American freedmen; Mexican-American laborers; and others. Tips on use are provided. A joint project of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory of the Univ. of Texas at Austin and the Texas Archeological Soc.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEXANS:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-342) and index.
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See T-CE7.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-430).
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NATIVE AMERICAN TEXANS:
From original copies in the Texas State Archives. Contains official letters, documents, reports, and treaties relating to Texas Indian tribes. Rich in firsthand reports of encounters, both friendly and hostile, with Indians. First published in 4 volumes as the Texas Indian papers by the Texas State Library between 1959 and 1961, and reprinted by Pemberton Pr. in 1966 with a 5th supplemental volume. Includes index.
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HISTORICAL MAPS AND ATLASES
Associated website: http://www.maps.com/iPower/Texas (requires purchase of print volume)
Includes index.
Reproductions of maps issued by various publishers, 1513-1936. Includes glossary. "Tools of the mapmaker" (p. 49-52). Bibliography (p. 60-63).
Nearly 100 maps, in colors brown, black, and white, show the locations of events, Indian tribes, Spanish exploration, French expeditions and settlements, early 19th century American immigration and colonies, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, annexation by the U.S., frontier forts, the Civil War, the Indian wars, the ranching industry, ethnic settlements, oil discovery, railroads, and the locations of cities, counties, and colleges and universities. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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Maps selected to present the most significant events in Texas history. Each map includes a brief interpretive essay. Scales differ. Map topics include: geography and geology of the state, Indians, a chronological settlement of Texas, cattle drives, petroleum discoveries, hurricanes, transportation, military installations, conservation, recreational areas, educational institutions, and political and economic districts. Includes bibliography (p. ix-xviii) and index.
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American West consists of 17 states along the 100th meridian westward. The 78 maps represent land grants, exploration, agriculture, various trails (mail, cattle, etc.), railroads, territorial expansion, crops, etc. Includes bibliography and index.
Reproductions of 19th-century county maps that are stored and preserved by the Texas General Land Office. These maps, along with the written descriptions of the 7 regions of the state, document the settlement history of Texas. Includes bibliographic references (p. 213-17) and an index.
Prepared in conjunction with the exhibit "Crossroads of empire: printed maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900". Originally published: Albuquerque, NM: Univ. of New Mexico Pr., 1984. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical in nature with the function of giving "detailed information on events that have occurred in this State and the people who participated in them." Includes a biography index.
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HISTORICAL MARKERS AND SITES
v. 1, Anderson County-Harris County; v. 2, Harrison County-Zapata County. Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-436) and index.
Over 200,000 historical site records include data on historical markers and the National Register of Historic Places in Texas. Search by county name, historical marker text, site name, or address. Limit by site types. Information includes everything from structural data for buildings to the development of businesses to the wording on historical markers. Location maps included.
Markers and inscriptions are listed alphabetically by the nearest city or town. Includes index.
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MARITIME HISTORY
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.
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OUTLAWS
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A bibliography of 425 books on the outlaws of the West, with full annotations, discussing historical accuracy versus rumors, myths, and legends. Includes detailed index.
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Covers 233 additional titles primarily since 1964. Includes index.
2,941 numbered items, arranged alphabetically, dealing with western outlaws. Pithy and informative annotations. Includes detailed index.
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REGIONAL HISTORY
Includes bibliographical references (p. 617-636) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-333) and index.
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REVOLUTION
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index. Includes biographies of every Alamo defender killed in the battle.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-311) and index.
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SPANISH TEXAS
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-147).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-444) and index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-324) and index.
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TEACHING
A lesson plan for educating students about the missions of the San Antonio area. Includes site maps, readings, images, and activities that can be used to teach about mission life in Texas.
Corresponds to the topic outline of most Texas history texts and represents a basic compilation of Texas history scholarship. Well annotated.
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TEXAS RANGERS
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-392) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-360) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index.
See T-AJ84
See T-AJ86
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WOMEN
Includes index.
See T-CJ8.
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Updated: 4 February 2007
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