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[Letter from John Dowell, April 20, 1876]

Description: Letter from John Dowell notifying the recipient of the new legislation on pensions for the soldiers or volunteers of the war between Texas and Mexico. Dowell is offering his services if the recipient believes that he qualifies for the pension.
Date: 1876-04-20~
Creator: Dowell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Map of Texas.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century Texas colonies, towns, forts, roads, areas of Native American habitation, missions, and battle sites. Includes notes. Inset: "Map of the Rio Grande and the country west to the Pacific." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,267,200].
Date: 1839
Creator: Hunt, Richard S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Cabin Book; or, Sketches of Life in Texas.

Description: This is an English translation of the German text, which is a historical novel about the creation of the Republic of Texas. It consists of a series of sketches that depict the new Republic of Texas as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Date: 1844
Creator: Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

The cabin book: or, sketches of life in Texas

Description: This is an English translation of the German text, which is a historical novel about the creation of the Republic of Texas. It consists of a series of sketches that depict the new Republic of Texas as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Date: 1844
Creator: Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864 & Mersch, Ch. Fr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

When Texas was young

Description: The battle of San Jacinto -- A surgeon's story -- The "Twin Sisters" -- Reminiscences, piratical and revolutionary, from the career of Colonel Warren D.C. Hall.
Date: 1930
Creator: Ziegler, Jesse A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report & Role in the 1836 Campaign

Description: Book containing Mexican Col. Juan N. Almonte's 1834 report concerning the measures necessary to prevent the loss of Texas, as well as fifty of his letters, and the journal he kept while at the side of Santa Anna during the Texas rebellion in 1836.
Date: 2003
Creator: Jackson, Jack, 1941-2006 & Almonte, Juan Nepomuceno, 1803-1869
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Documents of Texas History

Description: Book containing 141 documents pertinent to the history of Texas. These range from reports by Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century to speeches and legal cases from the twentieth century. Each document is preceded by brief introduction by the editors.
Date: 2002
Creator: Wallace, Ernest; Vigness, David M., 1922-1979 & Ward, George B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

High Yello Rose

Description: Play written by Sterling Houston about actions of American soldiers during the Texas Revolution.
Date: unknown
Creator: Houston, Sterling
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

True veterans of Texas : an authentic account of the Battle of San Jacinto : a complete list of heroes who fought, bled and died at San Jacinto : doubtful points cleared up

Description: An account of the Battle of San Jacinto written by Sam Houston and sent to David G. Burnett, President of the Republic of Texas. Cover title. "Presented for publication by J.W. Winters, Bigfoot, Texas."
Date: 1890
Creator: Houston, Sam; Burnett, David Gouverneur & Winters, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Dallas Public Library

The War in Texas; A Review of Facts and Circumstances, showing that this contest is a Crusade Against Mexico, set on foot by Slaveholders, Land Speculators, &c. In Order to Re-Establish, Extend, and Perpetuate the System of Slavery and the Slave Trade.

Description: Opinion piece describing the history and reasons for the Texas Revolution, including the position that it was intended to support slavery in Texas.
Date: 1837
Creator: Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

Texas Navy

Description: A survey of the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution and the Republic Era. Includes maps, sketches, a list of ships of the Texas Navy, and a chronology. Also includes photographs of 20th century U.S. Navy ships named after Texans or Texas locations.
Date: January 1, 1968
Creator: U.S. Navy Department. Naval History Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

"Map of the Battlefield of San Jacinto"

Description: "Map of the Battlefield of San Jacinto and map of the positions of the Texan and of the Mexican Armies, at the commencement of the Battle of San Jacinto, at half past three o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, April 21, 1836."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

"Refugio Mission"

Description: One of 8 maps of battle sites of the Texas Revolution drawn to accompany A.J. Houston's 1938 volume "Texas Independence"; this map shows "Ground plan of the original buildings, with walls enclosing the cemetery"
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

"The Alamo"

Description: Map of the Alamo showing the "Ground plan compiled from drawings by Capt. B. Green Jameson, Texan Army, January, 1826,Col. Ignacio de Labastida, Mexican Army, March, 1836, Capt. Ruben M. Potter, United States Army, 1841."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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