Pioneer Printer : : Samuel Bangs in Mexico and Texas / / Lota M. Spell.
Samuel Bangs, the first printer in the territory that is now Texas, once owed his life to his printing press. One of the few survivors of the Mina Expedition to Mexico in 1817, Bangs wrote to Servando de Mier, “I had the good fortune, through the will of God, to have my life saved, as I was a printe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2014] ©1963 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Abbreviations for Locations of Manuscripts and Specimens of Bangs' Printing and for Titles of Periodicals
- Introduction
- 1. With the Mina Expedition
- 2. In the Hands of State and Church
- 3. The Bangs and Boston
- 4. The Lure of Land in Texas
- 5. The Press in the Island City
- 6. Between the Nueces and the Rio Grande del Norte
- 7. Beneath the Soft Blue Grass
- Epilogue
- Appendix I. Documents
- Appendix II. Extant Specimens of Samuel Bangs' Printing
- Bibliography
- Index