The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days /

The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days / / Noah Smithwick.

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"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise." Noah Smithwic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Smithwick, Noah,
TeilnehmendeR:
Shawl, Charles.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1983
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Barker Texas History Center Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR
  • CHAPTER 1 Journey to the Land of Promise—first impressions; Dewitt's Colony
  • CHAPTER 2 Trip to interior—Victoria, Gonzales, LaGrange, Columbus; Karankawa Indians; Creasing a Mustang; Encounter with malarial fever; Night adventure in Brazos bottom; Ft. Bend; Bexar; Mistake of a life time; Murder of Early; An avenging Nemesis; Eventful career of the murderer
  • CHAPTER 3 Bell's Landing (Columbia); Josiah Bell; Other old residents; Slavery; Social events; Weddings, etc.
  • CHAPTER 4 A smuggling trip to old Mexico; First introduction to horsemeat; San Fernando; Ancient customs and prejudices; Practicing medicine; Ampirico Indians; Trip to silver mines; Smuggling adventures; An "old Moke"
  • CHAPTER 5 San Felipe de Austin; Pen pictures; Prominent men, Anecdotes of; Professional men; Social happenings; Early Colonists; Duels; Colonial Poet; Character of early Colonists; How it feels to be a homicide; Banished; Left a malediction on the place
  • CHAPTER 6 The Redlands—general character of; San of the land; Notorious counterfeiter; Mob law; Precious metal; Brown's mine; A noted horsethief
  • CHAPTER 7 Return to Texas; The gathering of the clans; First flag; March to San Antonio; Battle of Concepcion Mission
  • CHAPTER 8 Joined the ranging service; First Indian fight; Rescue of Mrs. Hibbon's child; The old Tumlinson block-house
  • CHAPTER 9 The Mexican invasion; Fall of the Alamo; "The runaway scrape;" Massacre of Goliad; Battle of San Jacinto; Division of spoils; Jim Bowie; Noted duel; Sam Houston
  • CHAPTER 10 Army falls back to Victoria; Peter Carr; Incidents of army life; Gen. Rusk; Disbanding of army
  • CHAPTER 11 Rangers return to frontier; Coleman's fort; Social event in Bastrop Co.; "The Color line;" Frontier clothing; Col. Coleman; Surprising a Comanche camp
  • CHAPTER 12 A return surprise; Stampeding a Caballado; Anecdotes of field and chase; Cure for fistula; Old frontiersmen; Commissioner to Indians
  • CHAPTER 13 Camping with Comanches; Comanche language; Social and domestic customs; Indian song; Political affairs; Amusements
  • CHAPTER 14 A tight place; Conclusion of treaty; Michael Andrews; Organization of Bastrop Co.; Old seals of office
  • CHAPTER 15 Stone-house fight; Second attempt to treat with Comanches; Narrow escapes; Tumlinson's Rangers; Eastland's Co.; Nat Turner's insurrection
  • CHAPTER 16 The San Saba Indian fight; A bad horse trade; Battle of Brushy Creek; "Flacco Colonel"
  • CHAPTER 17 Webber's Prairie; Old settlers; Humble heroes; First postoffice; First justice; Official record; Social features; Financial affairs; Exchange
  • CHAPTER 18 Webberville founded; Mormon Mills; Frontier hospitality; Trials and tribulations; Tonkawa scalp dance; Funeral
  • CHAPTER 19 Council house fight; Victoria and Linnville sacked; Plum Creek fight; Dark days; Woll's invasion; Dawson Massacre; A ride for life; Reuben Hornsby and family
  • CHAPTER 20 Founding of Austin City; Early arrivals; Land grabbers; John Caldwell
  • CHAPTER 21 Santa Fe, Mier, and Bexar prisoners in Mexico; Stories of their suffering and illtreatment; Murder of Mark B. Lewis; The Archive war; Cherokee war
  • CHAPTER 22 Annexation; R. E. B. Baylor; Mexican war; Texans in the war; Occupation by the United States Army; Army officers; Public debt; Removal to Brushy Creek; Wolves; Neighbors; Early emigrants to California
  • CHAPTER 23 Old Ft. Croggin; Officers in command; Early settlers; Burnet Co. organized; The town of Burnet; Mormon Mills and settlement; Character of Mormons; Schools
  • CHAPTER 24 Bear hunting; Advent of Galveston News; The agents' adventure; Old acquaintances; Social gatherings; Christening of Marble Falls; Camp meetings
  • CHAPTER 25 Double Horn; Hickory Creek; Smithwick's Mill; High Water; Fight with runaway slaves; Grasshoppers; Indian trial
  • CHAPTER 26 Troublous times; Fleeing from the wrath to come; Preparation for departure; The last farewell to Texas; Off for California; Incidents enroute; Scenes along the Rio Grande; Arizona; Apache Indians; A. Sidney Johnston; First encounter with Indians; Tucson; Mysterious murder; Down the home stretch; Ft. Yuma; Last forced march; The great Colorado desert
  • THE TEXAS STAR

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