The Beginning of Civilized Texas
“The story of Texas begins with the time when the first civilized man beheld its ...

Henry Nowlin Kerr County Pioneer
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Account of the life of one of the Texas Hill country's ...

Captain Neal Coldwell
By A. J. Sowell
Account of Captain Neal Coldwell who was born in Dade county, Missouri, in ...

Some Early Settlements in Texas
By August Santleben
Account describes the earliest settlers and settlements of the region originally designated ...

Philip Nolan
From the Texas Almanac, 1868. Account of Philip Nolan, of Irish origin, who became, through his numerous trading expeditions ...

Avis Brown Baker
By Avis Lott Sheppard
(As told to Gertrude Harris Cook)
Account of “Grandmother” Avis Brown Baker who ...

A Texas Frontier Journalist
V. O. Key, Jr.
"Two-gun" men, "boot" hills, bank robbers, cattle "rustling" fence wars, reckless cowboys ...

An Early Day Texas School
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Account of the frontier school which stood on the bank of ...

Uncle Sam's Camels
Taylor-Trotwood Magazine
Several camel-laden vessels docked at Galveston during the years between 1856 and 1859. The camels were imported ...

Robert Edward Lee
Robert L. Taylor
Mr. Taylor offers this excellent sketch of the life of this consummate man of ...

Revolution of Texas in 1812
From Texas Scrap Book, 1875
“In 1811 and 1812 Colonel W. D. C. Hall was residing at Nachitoches, and ...

Origin and Development of the Santa Fe Trade

This article is taken from "Commerce of the Prairies" a book published ...