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9780876111888

Documents of Texas History

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    9780876111888

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    0876111886

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-02-01
  • Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
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Summary

Originally published in 1963, this edition has been updated through 1993 and includes 141 documents on a broad range of social, cultural and political events which have shaped the history of Texas and often affected the nation.

Table of Contents

The First Europeans in Texas, 1528-1536
1(3)
Cabeza de Vaca Shipwrecked on the Texas Coast
1(1)
Cabeza de Vaca at the Spanish Court
2(1)
The De Soto-Moscoso Expedition, 1539-1543
3(2)
Who De Soto Was
3(1)
De Soto's Death and the Selection of His Successor
3(1)
Where and Why Moscoso Turned Back
4(1)
The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1541
5(3)
The Nature of Gran Quivira
5(1)
Castaneda's Description of the High Plains
5(1)
Coronado's Report to the King
6(2)
La Salle in Texas, 1685-1687
8(3)
Establishing Fort St. Louis
8(1)
La Salle's Search for the Mississippi
9(1)
The End of La Salle's Expedition
10(1)
The Spaniards Find La Salle's Settlement, April 22, 1689
11(1)
Spain's First Occupation of East Texas, 1690
12(2)
The Spanish Reoccupation of Texas: The Ramon Expedition, April-July, 1716
14(3)
La Harpe's Attempt to Establish Trade with the Spaniards, March 1, 1719-May 1, 1720
17(1)
Aguayo's Recovery of East Texas, 1719-1722
18(1)
Rubi's Report on the San Saba Establishment, August, 1767
19(3)
The Rubi Recommendations on Texas, April 10, 1768
22(1)
A New Defense Policy for the Northern Frontier, June 9-15, 1778
23(2)
The Founding of Nacogdoches, January-May, 1779
25(3)
A Census of Spanish Texas, December 31, 1783
28(1)
The Texas Missions, 1785
29(6)
Philip Nolan's Filibustering Expedition, 1800-1801
35(2)
The Neutral Ground Agreement, October 29 and November 4, 1806
37(1)
James Wilkinson to Governor Anthony [Antonio] Cordero [y Bustamente], Octr. 29th, 1806
37(1)
Symon de Herrera to James Wilkinson, Nov. 4th, 1806
38(1)
The Government of Texas, November 7, 1811
38(1)
Texas' First Declaration of Independence and First Constitution, April 6 and 17, 1813
39(2)
The Declaration of Independence, April 6, 1813
39(1)
The Constitution of the State of Texas, April 17, 1813
40(1)
Treaty Establishing the Boundary between Texas and the United States, February 22, 1819
41(1)
James Long: the Last of the Filibusters, 1819
42(2)
The Moses Austin Family, 1765-1837
44(2)
The Mexican Colonization Laws, January 4, 1823, August 18, 1824, and March 24, 1825
46(5)
The Imperial Colonization Law, January 4, 1823
47(1)
The National Colonization Law, August 18, 1824
48(1)
The Coahuila-Texas State Colonization Law, March 24, 1825
48(3)
The Old Three Hundred, 1824-1828
51(8)
De Witt's Empresario Contract, April 15, 1825
59(1)
The Fredonian Declaration of Independence, December 21, 1826
59(2)
The Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas, March 11, 1827
61(2)
San Felipe de Austin: the Anglo-American Colonial Capital of Texas, 1828-1831
63(1)
The Law of April 6, 1830
64(3)
Manuel Mier y Teran's Letter to President Guadalupe Victoria, June 30, 1828
65(1)
The Law of April 6, 1830
66(1)
The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company and the Sale of Land Scrip, 1831
67(2)
Trust Deed of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, January 1, 1831
67(2)
Letter Offering Land Scrip for Sale and Comments by a Purchaser, 1831
69(1)
Travel Accommodations and Customs in Colonial Texas, March-May, 1831
69(1)
Life in Colonial Texas, December, 1831
70(2)
Why the Colonists Attacked Bradburn at Anahuac, June, 1832
72(1)
The Turtle Bayou Resolutions, June 13, 1832
73(1)
The Convention of 1833, April 1-13, 1833
74(11)
Austin's Address Explaining Why the Convention Was Called, April 1, 1833
74(2)
The Memorial to Congress Requesting Separate Statehood, April, 1833
76(4)
The Proposed Constitution for the State of Texas, April 13, 1833
80(5)
Austin's Letter Describing His Imprisonment, May 10, 1834
85(2)
Almonte's Description of Texas, 1834
87(2)
The Department of Bexar
87(1)
The Department of the Brazos
88(1)
The Department of Nacogdoches
88(1)
Austin's Address at Brazoria on the Necessity of a Consultation, September 8, 1835
89(2)
The Texas Declaration of Causes for Taking up Arms against Santa Anna, November 7, 1835
91(1)
Plan and Powers of the Provisional Government of Texas, November 13, 1835
91(3)
The Resolution Calling for the Convention of March 1, 1836, December 10, 1835
94(1)
Treaty with the Cherokee Indians, February 23, 1836
95(1)
The Fall of the Alamo
96(2)
Travis' Letter of February 24, 1836
96(1)
Travis' Last Appeal for Aid, March 3, 1836
96(1)
Colonel Ruiz's Report of the Scene after the Fall of the Garrison, March 6, 1836
97(1)
The Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836
98(2)
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas, March 17, 1836
100(6)
The Goliad Campaign and Massacre, March, 1836
106(4)
The Runaway Scrape, March-April, 1836
110(3)
The Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836
113(4)
Houston's Official Report, April 25, 1836
113(2)
Colonel Pedro Delgado's Account
115(2)
The Treaty of Velasco, May 14, 1836
117(1)
An Abolitionist's Explanation of the Cause of the Texas Revolution, 1836
118(2)
A Description of the Towns of Texas, 1836
120(3)
President Houston's First Inaugural Address, October 22, 1836
123(2)
The Boundary of Texas Established, December 19, 1836
125(1)
President Lamar's Policies
125(5)
Lamar's Inaugural Address, December 10, 1838
125(2)
Lamar's Message to Congress, December 21, 1838
127(3)
The Homestead Law, January 26, 1839
130(1)
The Selection of a Site for the Permanent Capital of Texas, April 13, 1839
130(2)
The Treaty with France, September 25, 1839
132(2)
The Council House Fight, March 19, 1840
134(1)
The Treaties with Great Britain
135(3)
Convention for British Mediation with Mexico, November 14, 1840
135(1)
Treaty between the Republic of Texas and Great Britain for the Suppression of African Slave Trade, November 16, 1840
136(2)
Lamar's Address to the People of Santa Fe, June 5, 1841
138(1)
The First College in Texas, 1841-42
138(2)
Drawing the Black Beans: The Mier Prisoners, March 25, 1843
140(1)
Treaty of Bird's Fort, September 29, 1843
141(1)
President Tyler Proposes Annexation, October 16, 1843
142(1)
The Treaty of Annexation, April 12, 1844
143(1)
The Treaty of Tehuacana Creek, October 9, 1844
144(2)
The Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845
146(1)
A Preliminary Treaty with Mexico, May 19, 1845
147(1)
The Annexation Offer Accepted, July 4, 1845
148(1)
The Texas Constitution of 1845, August 28, 1845
149(11)
``The Republic of Texas Is No More,'' February 19, 1846
160(1)
President Polk Claims the Rio Grande as the Boundary between Texas and Mexico, November 10, 1845, and May 11, 1846
161(2)
Polk's Instructions to Slidell, November 10, 1845
161(1)
Polk's War Message, May 11, 1846
162(1)
A Texan's View of the War with Mexico, May 13, 1846
163(1)
Treaty Establishing the Rio Grande as the Boundary between Texas and Mexico, February 2, 1848
163(2)
Journal of a Plantation, 1848
165(9)
The Sons of Temperance: Constitution of the Chapter at Austin, Texas, March 22, 1849
174(2)
An Early Texas High School, December 31, 1849
176(2)
Address
176(1)
Constitution
177(1)
Establishment of the Texas-New Mexico Boundary, September 9, 1850
178(3)
Governor Bell's Message to the Legislature, August 13, 1850
178(2)
Report of the Committee of Thirteen, May 8, 1850
180(1)
The Texas-New Mexico Boundary Act, September 9, 1850
180(1)
The Establishment of the Texas School System, January 31, 1854
181(2)
Texas before the Civil War: A Yankee's Description, December 1853-May 1854
183(3)
The Home of an East Texas Cattleman
183(1)
The Home of an East Texas Planter
184(1)
The Germans of New Braunfels
184(2)
The Legislature at Work
186(1)
The American (Know-Nothing) Party Platform, January 21-22, 1856
186(1)
The Camel Experiment, June 24-August 15, 1860
187(7)
Texas Secedes from the Union, February 1 and 2, 1861
194(2)
The Ordinance of Secession, February 1, 1861
194(1)
A Declaration of the Causes Which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union
194(2)
Governor Houston Deposed, March 16, 1861
196(1)
The Battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863
196(3)
General Franklin's Report, September 11, 1863
196(2)
Lieutenant Dowling's Report, September 9, 1863
198(1)
Johnson's Plan of Reconstruction, 1865
199(2)
Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation, May 29, 1865
199(1)
Johnson's Proclamation of the Restoration of Civil Government for Texas, June 17, 1865
200(1)
Granger's Proclamation Abolishing Slavery in Texas, June 19, 1865
201(1)
John H. Reagan's Fort Warren Prison Letter on Reconstruction, August 11, 1865
201(2)
President Johnson's Proclamation Recognizing the Restoration of Civil Government in Texas, August 20, 1866
203(1)
The Congressional Plan of Reconstruction, March 2, March 23, and July 19, 1867
204(2)
The First Congressional Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867
204(1)
The Second Reconstruction Act, March 23, 1867
205(1)
The Third Reconstruction Act, July 19, 1867
205(1)
Chief Ten Bears' Speech Setting Forth the Case of the Comanches at the Council of Medicine Lodge, October 20, 1867
206(1)
The Ritual of a Secret Society, June 4, 1868
207(1)
Texas v. White: The Constitutionality of Reconstruction, 1869
208(2)
The Constitution of the State of West Texas, January, 1869
210(3)
The Constitution of 1869, February 8, 1869
213(3)
The Tax-Payers' Convention, September 22-25, 1871
216(4)
Report of the Committee of Twenty-one on Violations of Constitution and Laws
216(3)
Report of the Committee of Twenty-one on Taxes and Statistics
219(1)
The Semi-Colon Court: The Rodriguez Case, January 5, 1874
220(1)
President Grant Refuses to Support Davis, January 12 and 17, 1874
221(1)
Declaration of Purposes of the National Grange, February, 1874
222(1)
The Extermination of the Buffalo, January-April, 1875
223(3)
Governor O. M. Roberts' Land Policy, 1879
226(2)
Roberts' Recommendation on the Sale of Public Lands, January 21, 1879
226(1)
The Land Law of 1879, July 14, 1879
227(1)
The Fence-Cutting War and Efforts To End It
228(3)
The Fence-Gate Law, February 6, 1884
228(1)
A Texas Ranger's Efforts to Catch Fence-Cutters, August---October, 1888
228(3)
The Cattle Kingdom
231(7)
The Wild Longhorn Cattle, 1850's
231(1)
Managing a Trail Herd, 1865-1888
232(2)
A ``Glimpse'' of Ranch Life, Circa 1902
234(2)
The Making of a Cowboy, 1902-1921
236(2)
The Farmers' Alliance: The Cleburne Platform, August 7, 1886
238(1)
Some Experiences of an Early Surveyor in the Texas Panhandle, 1887
239(3)
The Texas Anti-Trust Law, March 30, 1889
242(1)
Demands of the Texas Federation of Labor, July 3, 1889
243(1)
Governor James S. Hogg on Railroad Regulation, January 21, 1891
244(2)
The Populist Party: Its First State Platform, August 17-18, 1891
246(2)
The Greer County Dispute, March 16, 1896
248(1)
The Great Galveston Hurricane, September 8, 1900
249(3)
Special Report by the Weather Bureau, September, 1900
249(2)
A Reporter's Description of Galveston after the Storm, September 10-11, 1900
251(1)
Spindletop and the Beginning of the Modern Oil Industry, 1901-1903
252(5)
The Spindletop Discovery, January 10, 1901
252(2)
Life in an Oil Field Boom Town, October, 1903
254(3)
The High Plains: A Geological Description, 1901
257(3)
The Terrell Election Law, May 14, 1905
260(4)
Joseph Weldon Bailey and ``Baileyism,'' January 23, 1907
264(2)
Prohibition versus Local Option, 1908-1910
266(2)
The Anti-Prohibitionists' Platform, October 12, 1908
266(1)
The Prohibitionists' Platform and Resolutions, December 8, 1910
266(2)
James E. Ferguson: His Platform and His Impeachment
268(3)
Ferguson's First Gubernatorial Platform, November 15, 1913
268(1)
The Impeachment of Governor Ferguson, September 24, 1917
269(2)
The Ku Klux Klan Creed, July, 1923
271(1)
Nixon v. Herndon: The Texas ``White Primary'' Law Invalidated, March 7, 1927
271(1)
The Transaction Tax: Governor W. Lee O'Daniel's Revenue Proposal, January 18, 1939
272(2)
Smith v. Texas: Negroes and Grand Jury Service, November 25, 1940
274(2)
Smith v. Allwright: The ``White Primary'' Case, April 3, 1944
276(1)
The Gilmer-Aikin School Laws, June 1 and 8, 1949
277(3)
Sweatt v. Painter: Desegregation of Institutions of Higher Learning, June 5, 1950
280(2)
The Tidelands Case, June 5, 1950
282(3)
Hurricane Carla, September 3-15, 1961
285(2)
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, November 22, 1963
287(2)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, 1963-1969
289(5)
The Great Society, May 22, 1964
289(1)
The American Promise, March 15, 1965
290(1)
Cotulla, Texas, November 7, 1966
291(2)
Peace, March 31, 1968
293(1)
Violence in Texas: The Charles J. Whitman Shooting, August 1, 1966
294(4)
The First Man on the Moon Talks to Houston, July 20, 1969
298(3)
La Raza Unida Party, 1970
301(3)
The Sharpstown Scandal, 1971
304(2)
Roe v. Wade: Abortion Legalized, January 22, 1973
306(2)
The Big Thicket National Preserve Established, October 11, 1974
308(2)
Big Thicket Controversy, September 29, 1974
308(1)
Big Thicket Legislation, October 11, 1974
309(1)
A Republican and a Woman Inaugurated as Governors of Texas, January 16, 1979, and January 15, 1991
310(3)
William P. Clements Jr.: Inauguration Speech, January 16, 1979
310(2)
Ann Richards: Inauguration Speech, January 15, 1991
312(1)
Larry McMurtry Publishes Novel Lonesome Dove, 1985
313(2)
The Oil Boom and Bust and the Savings & Loan Scandal, 1990
315(2)
Edgewood v. Kirby: The Funding of Education in Texas, January 22, 1991
317(2)
The Texas Lottery, 1991
319(3)
Opposition to the Lottery, October 1991
320(1)
The Lottery Established, 1991
320(2)
Barbara Jordan's Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention, July 13, 1992
322(2)
The Dallas Cowboys: America's Team, 1994
324(3)
Index 327

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