The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 97
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Studies in Texas History
of the General Land Office, the Office of the Secretary of State, the
Texas State Library, and the University of Texas, is incorpo-
rated in the thesis.
HOLDEN, FRONTIER PROBLEMS AND MOVEMENTS IN WEST
TEXAS, 1846-1900: Part I of this thesis contains four chapters
on frontier defense in Texas. An effort is made to treat frontier
defense as a whole, including the parts contributed by both the
state and federal governments. Part II contains five social and
economic problems or movements in West Texas, such as the rail-
road movement, the development of agriculture, drouths, the min-
eral movement and amusements. These chapters really constitute
isolated descriptive studies bound together by a sort of geographic
unity. It would be difficult to tie them together in any kind of
organic order or sequence. They are for the most part a portrayal
of conditions that are parallel and contemporary with each other;
sometimes the topics criss-cross each other; sometimes they in-
fluence each other, and at other times they are independent. For
instance, the railroad movement and the mineral movement were
going on at the same time. The drouth of 1886, curiously enough,
intensified both movements; both reached their peak during 1886.
The mineral movement had a considerable influence upon the rail-
road movement, but the railroad had but little influence upon the
mineral movement. The people had their amusements before the
drouth and before the coming of the railroads, but the drouth
exerted a strong influence in modifying the amusements. The
railroads, by bringing in a large influx of immigration, helped to
change completely the nature of the amusements.
The work does not pretend to be exhaustive. Much remains to
be said concerning the subjects treated. There are many more
t-opics of a social and economic nature to be worked out. Those
given in this thesis are indicative of others which remain to chal-
lenge students of Texas history.
RIIoIARDSON, THE COMANCHE INDIANS, 1820-1861: The Co-
manche is a Shoshonean tribe which came from the north into
the plains region south of the Arkansas River during the first half
of the eighteenth century. For nearly a hundred years they har-
ried the Spanish settlements and in 1758 they destroyed the mis-
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