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- A Study of Rural Schools in Travis County, Texas
- Book describing the economic conditions, social conditions, finances, facilities and curriculum in Travis County Schools.
- Along the Rio Grande
- Book written by the author as he traveled along the Rio Grande as a 'warless war correspondent.'
- Governors' Messages: Coke to Ross (Inclusive), 1874-1891
- This book contains a compilation of various speeches (including inaugural addresses) and other messages (including reports and veto statements) written by governors of Texas between 1874 and 1891. Additionally, brief biographies are included for each of the governors (Richard Coke, O. M. Roberts, John Ireland, and Lawrence Sullivan Ross) with the exception of R. B. Hubbard. Index starts on page 783.
- The Story of Corpus Christi
- This book describes the history of Corpus Christi through sketches of persons and events in the history of the city. According to the preface, it does focuses less on the history than on the people, "presenting in plain narrative form, a recountal of the days when Corpus Christi was young, of the trials and tribulations that fell to the lot of her residents in the war periods, and finally to emerge as a fast growing a progressive city of the Southland" (p. v).