San Antonio College Library

Contains 10,500 names. Records for six counties, namly Golaid, refugio, San Patricio, Matagords, Milam and Wharton, were lost.

Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their simple beauty. The log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that were so common at one time will soon be too few to permit meaningful research. This book preserves a legacy of folk architecture that might otherwise have been lost.

The days after the Civil War were tempestuous times in Texas. The Six-Shooter was both judge and jury as lawlessness ran rampant. Men with bodies and minds tattered by war, fortunes wasted in four years of desperation tried to rebuild their lives from a foundation of ashes. DeWitt County, Texas especially tasted the bitter dredges of this desolation and provided the backdrop for the "Sutton-Taylor Feud." Although the feud, now famous in the annals...

This is a collection of tribal mytology unique to this particular group of people.

In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de Leon, a frontier province of New Spain where Spanish settlements were widely scattered and subject to clashes with the Native American inhabitants. In 1690, a resident Spanish official looked back over the eventful, sometimes tumultuous history of Nuevo Leon and penned a richly detailed account of the years 1630 to 1690. Although Juan Bautista Chapa's Historia...