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Sketch of General Mirabeau B. Lamar
Account of the life of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the third Presi­dent of Texas, ...

Sketch Of General Thomas J. Rusk
From The Texas Almanac, 1857
Thomas Jefferson Rusk was born December 5, 1808, iii the Pendleton, District ...

Jack Hays, Premier Texas Ranger
JACK HAYS WAS born February 23, 1817, on a farm in Wilson county, Tennessee, about twelve miles ...

Picturesque Judge Roy Bean (By the way, that's 'ol Judge Bean on the cover)
ONE OF THE most picturesque ...

Henry Smith, First Governor of Texas
HENRY SMITH, the first governor of Texas, was a native of Kentucky, but moved ...

Texas Independence Won at San Jacinto (Sam Houston on cover)
General Santa Anna was very much puffed up over ...

On the cover: Tobe Joy
Texas Once Had A Navy
The Texas navy was created in 1835 when Henry Smith was ...

Theodore Roosevelt, Ranchman
The most picturesque episode in the remarkable career of Theodore Roosevelt was that of his life as ...

On the cover – C. C. Slaughter
Colonel C. C. Slaughter
C. (LUM) Slaughter was born in Sabine county, Texas, February 9, 1837. ...

On the Cover – Col. Jim BridgerOld Jim Bridger Excellent account of one of the real heroes of the Old West, ...

On the cover – Kit Carson
Kit Carson, The Mighty Hunter And Trapper
J. Marvin Hunter. An excerpt: Christopher Carson, otherwise ...

General A. R. Johnson Adani Ranklin Johnson was one of the earliest settlers of Burnet County. He was influential in ...

When Sam Jones Came To Texas Account of SAMUEL PORTER JONES, the noted evangelist, who was born in Chambers county, ...

Governor Francis Richard Lubbock Account of Francis Richard Lubbock who was born in the town of Beaufort, on the coast ...

William B. Travis, Hero of the Alamo
By J. Marvin Hunter.
All patriotic Texians revere the name of William Barrett ...

Captivity Of The Simpson Children
John Henry Brown
Among the residents of Austin in the days of its partial abandonment, ...

SOME SONGS OF YESTERYEAR
JUST AS THE SUN WENT DOWN - AFTER THE BALL - WHEN YOU AND I WERE ...

Some Songs of Yesteryear
THE OLD STEP STONE - JOE BOWERS - N'GER ON THE RUN

Battle Between Rangers And ...

Some Old Songs & Poems
IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND WORTH LOVING - LITTLE BLACK MOUSTACHE - "THE TIE THAT ...

Lyman Wight And The Mormons In Texas
By T. U. Taylor.
Excellent account of the history of the Mormon settlers ...