Author: Helen Smothers Swenson
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Author: Helen Swenson
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ISBN: 9780788476044
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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These documents offer a collection of excerpts and advertisements from Texas newspapers such as Mexican Citizen, The Northern Standard, and other various newspapers from San Felipe and Brazoria published between 1831 and 1848.

Author: Helen Smothers Swenson
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Given in memory of James C. Williams by Mr. & Mrs. Foy Webb.

Author: Helen Smothers Swenson
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Author: Clifford R. Caldwell
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1632930889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Since 1819 over 3,000 souls found their personal “eternity at the end of a rope” in Texas. Some earned their way. Others were the victim of mistaken identity, or an act of vigilante justice. Deserved or not, when the hangman’s knot is pulled up tight and the black cap snugged down over your head it is too late to plead your case. This remarkable story begins in 1819 with the first legal hanging in Texas. By 1835 accounts of lynching dotted the records. Although by 1923 legal execution by hanging was discontinued in favor of the electric chair, vigilante justice remained a favorite pastime for some. The accounts of violence are numbing. The cultural and racial implications are profound, and offer a far more accurate, unbiased insight into the tally of African-American and Hispanic victims of mob violence in the Lone Star State than has ever been presented. Many of these deeds were nothing short of morbid theater, worthy of another era. This book is backed up by years of research and thousands of primary source documents. Includes Index and Bibliography.

Author: Alice Eichholz
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9781593311667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Author: National Genealogical Society
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Mark Allan Goldberg
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803285884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout this eighty-year period, ordinary health concerns shaped cross-cultural interactions during Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo colonization. Historians have shown us that Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American settlers in the contested borderlands read the environment to determine how to live healthy, productive lives. Colonizers similarly outlined a culture of healthy living by observing local Native and Mexican populations. For colonists, Texas residents’ so-called immorality—evidenced by their “indolence,” “uncleanliness,” and “sexual impropriety”—made them unhealthy. In the Spanish and Anglo cases, the state made efforts to reform Indians into healthy subjects by confining them in missions or on reservations. Colonists’ views of health were taken as proof of their own racial superiority, on the one hand, and of Native and Mexican inferiority, on the other, and justified the various waves of conquest. As in other colonial settings, however, the medical story of Texas colonization reveals colonial contradictions. Mark Allan Goldberg analyzes how colonizing powers evaluated, incorporated, and discussed local remedies. Conquering Sickness reveals how health concerns influenced cross-cultural relations, negotiations, and different forms of state formation. Focusing on Texas, Goldberg examines the racialist thinking of the region in order to understand evolving concepts of health, race, and place in the nineteenth century borderlands.

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Cadwell Walton Raines
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The first bibliography of Texas ever printed. Covers earlier and later periods than does Streeter. "Raines is "the pioneer work of Texas bibl.