A study commissioned by the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners of the Port of Houston after the observance of Houston's fiftieth anniversary as a deep-water port.

From the time a press first reached Texas in 1813 until the Civil War, some four hundred newspapers appeared to chronicle the development of a nation. An annotated checklist of Texas papers from annexation to the Civil War makes this an invaluable reference work, while the drama of the subject make it an enthralling tale.