The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956 Page: 225
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Luncheon opening the Southwest Writers Conference of 1955-
Dr. Carlos E. Castafieda, of the University of Texas, presented a
paper on Jose de Escandon, the first successful colonizer of the
area now served by the South Texas Association. Notice was taken
of the diary of Basterra, the first document to describe Corpus
Christi Bay from the land side.
President Paul Adams of the State Association and President
Tatton of the South Texas group have agreed upon a procedure
whereby copies of all papers presented before the South Texas
group will be forwarded to Austin for filing in the Eugene C.
Barker Texas History Center at the University. This is indeed a
forward-looking step in preserving the historical record of Texas.
William M. Pearce, head of the history department of Texas
Technological College, has been appointed to a three-man advisory
committee to assist in a cattle industry research study recently
undertaken by the State Historical Society of Colorado.
The project, "The Western Range Cattle Industry Study," is
being supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Project director is Maurice Frink of Denver.
Pearce did his doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas
on the Matador Ranch.
M. N. Dannenbaum, president of the Rotary Club at Harris-
burg, has kindly furnished the office a copy of an attractive pam-
phlet recently printed and entitled Harrisburg: The Community
and its Rotary Club by Edwin Rice Brown and Lesley L. Walker,
Jr. Twenty-four pages give the local history of the Harrisburg
area, which was eventually absorbed by Houston. It is a charming
account from the founding of the town by Captain John Rich-
ardson Harris at the then head of navigation of Buffalo Bayou
to the time of December, 1926, when Harrisburg was officially
annexed to Houston.
Under the editorship of James R. Masterson, Writings on
American History, 1950, has appeared as volume II of the Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the year 1952.
The Texas entries begin on page 288 and run into page 296. The
list contains forty-eight entries for Texas and makes a valuable225
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