Eighteen letters, 12 written from Texas, to and from or concerning Alexander Black Sloan (1820–1900), physician, Texas land speculator and owner, and Yates County, New..... Read More about Eighteen Letters, 1853–1891 with Texas content, to and from or concerning Dr. Alexander B....
Letter from a Texas rancher, a scoundrel, and an officer at Fort Lyon, Colorado about sheep ranching and wool business in Texas. Charles Tripler Witherell..... Read More about 1877 Autograph Letter Signed by a Texas Rancher, Scoundrel, and Officer Charles T. Witherell, 1st...
Texas Bonds and the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, General James Hamilton Jr., one-time Governor of South Carolina, and Texas loan commissioner, loaned money to..... Read More about 1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from...
Biingual, this 19th-century Texas trade card solicited German-speaking immigrants to stay at the Chicago House. The Chicago House was a hotel in Galveston, Texas. Emigrants..... Read More about Chicago House. Fritz Scheel, Proprietor ... Galveston, Tex
Saloon-keeper and Texas Justice of the Peace Roy Bean (ca. 1825–1903) —who styled himself “The Law West of the Pecos”— conducted an unconventional, sometimes extra-legal..... Read More about 1901 Autograph Letter Signed by James Bean, Brother of Legendary Judge Roy Bean—“The Law West...
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
“This study concentrates on the gradual decline of the Negro’s status in the post-Reconstruction era. The author describes blacks’ fight for equity in the political..... Read More about The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900
![The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme. Merchant Navy Day Appeal Committee](/pictures/thumb/3724997_1.jpg?v=1562796869)
Colorful, illustrated World War II program for a U. S. Army demonstration game of American-rules football, played “Somewhere in Australia.” The game was played between..... Read More about The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme
Collection of letters relating to business transactions and the selling or administering of real estate in the 1890s and early 1900s. All the letters are..... Read More about Circa 1890s–early 1900s Collection of Thirteen Handwritten Letters to Judge R.E. Hendry and Ed...
![The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...](/pictures/thumb/3728220_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
Twenty-first title in “Beadle’s Frontier Series” of dime novels first published 1908–1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The plot involves the Native American..... Read More about The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...
![Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906. Senator...](/pictures/thumb/3729116_1.jpg?v=1578529837)
Rare pamphlet transcription of debate proceedings in the U.S. Senate on the “Dismissal of Three Companies of Twenty-Fifth Infantry”—African American troops or “Buffalo Soldiers”—in the..... Read More about Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906
![San Antonio Texas, Map] The Buckhorn Curio Store (Museum). The Buckhorn](/pictures/thumb/3727824_1.jpg?v=1540253932)
Advertising vehicle, date 1939, for this San Antonio fixture located on Houston Street. An inset map shows buildings and points of interests. Two curious poems..... Read More about San Antonio Texas, Map] The Buckhorn Curio Store (Museum
![1844 U.S.–Republic of Texas treaty of annexation:] Proceedings of the Senate and Documents...](/pictures/thumb/3729904_1.jpg?v=1608257654)
First printing of the 1844 U.S.–Republic of Texas treaty of annexation. Though the treaty was rejected over concerns about slavery in Texas, the annexation of..... Read More about 1844 U.S.–Republic of Texas treaty of annexation:] Proceedings of the Senate and Documents...
