Lone Star Nation (66 page)

“Extraordinary”: Bemis, 408.

“Yet my conscience”: Adams diary, March 29, 1841, Adams Papers.

“bold, dashing, and utterly baseless . . . of posterity”: Bemis, 474.

“If slavery were totally abolished . . . prospect is deathlike”: Adams, 12:128, 152, 171; also
Congressional Globe,
January 24–25, 1845.

“I congratulate you . . . Union is secured”: Remini, 3:511.

22. The Trial of Sam Houston

“Supposing a charming lady . . . [Laughter and cheers.]”:
WSH,
6:12.

“Mexicans!”: Callcott, 219.

“Mexicans! You have a religion”: ibid., 257.

“This task is done”: Crane, 256.

“My son”: James, 357.

“I suppose that not less”:
PCSH,
3:69.

“The Congress of the United States . . . glorious Union”:
WSH,
5:119–44.

“an eminently perilous measure . . . Give us peace!”: ibid., 513, 522.

“All agree that if Sam Houston”: James, 382.

“Upward of forty-seven . . . gazing on its ruin!”:
WSH,
8:145–60.

“The people are always right”: Tocqueville,
Journey,
156.

“Fellow citizens . . . of human freedom”:
WSH,
8:277.

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Archival Collections

Adams, Henry Alexander, Papers, Center for American History (CAH), University of Texas at Austin.

Adams, John Quincy (and family), Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.

Alamán, Lucas, Papers, Benson Latin American Collection (BLAC), University of Texas at Austin.

Allen, Samuel T., Papers, CAH.

Almonte, Juan N., Papers, CAH.

Ames, Harriet A., Papers, CAH.

Ampudia, Pedro de, Papers, CAH.

Archivo de México, Texas State Library (TSL), Austin.

Archivo General de Indias, TSL.

Archivo General de México, CAH.

Aury, Louis, Papers, CAH.

Austin, Moses and Stephen, Papers, CAH.

Austin, William T., Papers, CAH.

Austin Colony Census, 1826, CAH.

Baker, Mosely, Papers, CAH.

Béxar Archives, CAH.

Billingsley, Jesse, Papers, CAH.

Bowie, James, Papers, CAH.

Bryan, Guy M., Papers, CAH.

Bryan, Moses Austin, Papers, CAH.

Burnet, David G., Papers, CAH.

Butler, Anthony, Papers, CAH.

Crusemann, Paul C., Papers, CAH.

Davenport, Harbert, Papers, TSL.

Documentos Relativos a Coahuila, Coahuila y Tejas, y Nuevo León y Coahuila; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Documents Relating to Texas, Bancroft Library.

Edwards, Haden, Papers, CAH.

Felloseby, John, Papers, CAH.

Ford, John Salmon, Papers, CAH.

Hearne, Madge Williams, Papers, CAH.

Hearne, Sam Houston, Papers, CAH.

Houston, Andrew Jackson, Papers, TSL.

Houston, Sam, Papers, CAH.

Hunter, John Warren, Papers (“Literary Effort”), TSL.

Iturbide, Augustín de, Papers, BLAC.

Jackson, Andrew, Papers, Library of Congress.

Kuykendall Family Papers, CAH.

Lamar, Mirabeau B., Papers, TSL.

Lindsey Family Papers, TSL.

Mexia Family Papers, Bancroft Library.

Miller, Washington Daniel, Papers, TSL.

Nacogdoches Archive, TSL.

Peebles, Robert U., Papers, CAH.

Perry, James Franklin and Stephen Samuel, Papers, CAH.

Prather, Ben Caldwell, Papers, CAH.

Rusk, Thomas J., Papers, CAH.

Santa Anna, Antonio López de, Papers, BLAC.

Seguín, Juan N., Papers, CAH.

Stewart, Charles B., Papers, TSL.

Travis, William Barret, Papers, CAH.

Walker, Samuel Hamilton, Papers, TSL.

Yoakum, Henderson, Papers, TSL.

Zavala, Lorenzo de, Papers, CAH.

Published Works

Adams, John Quincy.
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848
. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. 12 volumes. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1969.

Almonte, Juan Nepomuceno. “The Private Journal of Juan Nepomuceno Almonte: February 1–April 16, 1836,” introduced by Samuel E. Asbury,
SWHQ
48 (1944), 10–32.

Ashford, Gerald.
Spanish Texas: Yesterday and Today
. Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1971.

Austin, Moses. “A Memorandum of M. Austin's Journey from the Lead Mines in the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia to the Lead Mines in the Province of Louisiana West of the Mississippi, 1796–1797.” Edited by George P. Garrison.
American Historical Review
, vol. 5 (1900), 518–42.

Austin, Stephen Fuller. “Journal of Stephen F. Austin on His First Trip to Texas, 1821.”
Texas Historical Association Quarterly
, vol. 7 (1904), 286–307.

———. “The ‘Prison Journal' of Stephen F. Austin,”
The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association
, vol. 2 (1899), 183–210.

Austin, Stephen Fuller, and Moses Austin.
The Austin Papers
. Edited by Eugene C. Barker. 3 volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924–1928 (volumes 1–2); Austin: University of Texas Press, 1927 (volume 3). By far the most valuable primary source on early Texas. Compiled and edited by the dean of Texas historians.

Baker, Mosely. “Extracts from Mosely Baker's Letter to Houston,” in Barker, “The San Jacinto Campaign,” 272–87.

Barker, Eugene C.
The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793–1836
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. An admiring portrait that remains essential.

———. “The San Jacinto Campaign,”
SWHQ
4 (1901), 237–345. The view from several perspectives, not all edited equally well.

Barnard, J. H. “Fannin at Goliad—Battle of the Coleta—The Massacre of Fannin's Command,” in Wooten, ed., 608–36.

Barr, Alwyn.
Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

Bazant, Jan.
A Concise History of Mexico from Hidalgo to Cárdenas, 1805–1940
. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Bean, Ellis P.
Memoir of Col. Ellis P. Bean, Written by Himself, about the Year 1816
. Edited by W.P. Yoakum. N.p.: Book Club of Texas, 1930.

Bemis, Samuel Flagg.
John Quincy Adams and the Union
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Berlandier, Jean Louis.
The Indians of Texas in 1830
. Edited by John C. Ewers. Translated by Patricia Reading Leclercq. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969.

———.
Journey to Mexico During the Years 1826 to 1834
. 2 volumes. Translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf, Josette M. Bigelow, and Mary M. Standifer. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1980.

Bolton, Herbert Eugene.
Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration
. 1915. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. What eventually led to the decision to let the Americans in.

Bowie, John. “Early Life in the Southwest—The Bowies,”
De Bow's Southern and Western Review
13 (October 1852), 378–83.

Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núnez.
Relation
. 1542. Translated by Buckingham Smith. New York: n.p., 1871. One of the epic tales of the American Southwest.

Calderón de la Barca, Fanny.
Life in Mexico: The Letters of Fanny Calderón de la Barca
. Edited by Howard T. Fisher and Marion Hall Fisher. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1966. Although related only tangentially to Texas, worth reading simply for the shrewd insights of the author.

Callcott, Wilfrid Hardy.
Santa Anna: The Story of an Enigma Who Once Was Mexico
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936. The most reliable life, in any language.

Campbell, Randolph B.
An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Cantrell, Gregg.
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. Updates Barker, asks harder questions of Austin, and is the current starting point for the study of Texas's founding father.

Castañeda, Carlos E., ed.
The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution
. Dallas: P. L. Turner Company, 1928. Invaluable for understanding the actions and motivations of Mexico's leading figures in the war for Texas. Written after the fact (that is, after the Mexican defeat), it contains much reciprocal finger-pointing, but is more interesting for that.

Castañeda, Carlos E.
Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, 1519–1936
. 7 volumes. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1936–58.

Clay, Henry.
The Papers of Henry Clay
. Edited by James F. Hopkins et al. 10 volumes and supplement. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1959–92.

Crane, William Carey.
Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas
. Dallas: William G. Scarff & Co., 1884.

Crisp, James E. “Sam Houston's Speechwriters: The Grad Student, the Teenager, the Editors, and the Historians.”
SWHQ
97 (1993), 203–37.

Crockett, David.
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
. 1834. Edited by James A. Shackford and Stanley J. Folmsbee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.

Davis, William C.
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. A wonderful work of investigation and narration. Especially valuable on Bowie.

Day, James M., comp.
The Texas Almanac, 1857–1873: A Compendium of Texas History
. Waco: Texian Press, 1967. A grab bag from grab bags, containing gems among much else.

De la Peña, José Enrique.
With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution
. Translated and edited by Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975. The subject of far more controversy than it should have evoked. An essential component of the first-person literature on the Texas Revolution.

De León, Arnoldo.
The Tejano Community, 1836–1900
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

DeConde, Alexander.
The Affair of Louisiana
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

Delgado, Pedro.
Mexican Account of the Battle of San Jacinto
. Deepwater, Tex.: W. C. Day, [1919].

Dewees, W. B.
Letters from an Early Settler of Texas
. 1852. Waco: Texian Press, 1968. Some historians have questioned the authenticity of certain of the letters in this book, suggesting that they were written after the dates assigned to them therein. This may well be so, and the “letters” may be in part a literary device. But no one disputes that Dewees was in Texas during the period covered by the book, or that it is at least a memoir if not always an account contemporary with the events it describes. The distinction is unimportant for the present purpose.

Documentos Inéditos o Muy Raros para la Historia de México
. Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa, 1974 ed.

Documents of Texas History
. Edited by Ernest Wallace, David M. Vigness, and George B. Ward. Austin: State House Press, 1994.

Ehrenberg, Herman.
With Milam and Fannin: Adventures of a German Boy in Texas' Revolution
. Originally published as
Texas und Seine Revolution
; Leipzig, 1843. Translated by Charlotte Churchill. Dallas: Tardy Publishing Co., 1935. Something has been lost in the translation and editing, but very much of value remains.

Featherstonhaugh, G. W.
Excursion Through the Slave States from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico
. 2 volumes. London: John Murray, 1844.

Fehrenbach, T. R.
Comanches: The Destruction of a People
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Field, Joseph E.
Three Years in Texas, Including a View of the Texan Revolution and an Account of the Principal Battles
. 1836. Austin: Steck Company, 1935.

Filisola, Vicente.
Memoirs for the History of the War in Texas
. 2 volumes. 1848. Translated by Wallace Woolsey. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1985.

———. “Representation Addressed to the Supreme Government,” in Castañeda, ed.,
The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution
.

Flores, Dan L., ed.
Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Frontier, 1790–1810
. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.

Foote, Henry Stuart.
Texas and the Texans, or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-west
. 2 volumes. 1841. Austin: Steck Company, 1935. A standard source, still very useful.

Fuentes Mares, José.
Santa Anna, el Hombre
. Mexico City: Editorial Grijalbo, 1982 ed.

Garrison, George P., ed.
Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas
. 2 volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908–11.

Gonzalez Pedrero, Enrique.
Pals de un Solo Hombre: El México de Santa Anna
. 2 volumes to date. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Esconómica, 1993–2003.

Gracy, David B., II.
Moses Austin: His Life
. San Antonio, Tex.: Trinity University Press, 1987. The only good work on Moses Austin.

Gregory, Jack, and Rennard Strickland.
Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829–1833
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967.

Haley, James L.
Sam Houston
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Less literary than James's biography, but more thorough and reliable. The current standard.

Hammond, George P., and Agapito Rey.
Narratives of the Coronado Expedition, 1540–1542
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1940.

Hardin, Stephen L.
Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Succinct and solid, the best account of the rebel campaign. The renderings of uniforms and arms are a delightful bonus.

Hatcher, Mattie Austin.
The Opening of Texas to Foreign Settlement, 1801–1821
. Austin: University of Texas, 1927. (University of Texas
Bulletin
, no. 2714: April 8, 1927.)

Heale, M. J. “The Role of the Frontier in Jacksonian Politics: David Crockett and the Myth of the Self-Made Man.”
Western Historical Quarterly
, volume 4 (1973), 405–23.

Herring, Patricia Roche.
General José Cosme Urrea: His Life and Times, 1797–1849
. Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1995.

Hogan, William Ransom.
The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946. Life under the Lone Star.

Holley, Mary Austin.
Texas: Observations Historical, Geographic and Descriptive
. 1833. New York: Arno Press, 1973. Also the 1836 edition, subtitled
Original Narratives of Texas History and Adventure
, reprinted Austin: Steck Company, 1935.

———.
The Texas Diary, 1835–1838
. Edited by J. P. Bryan. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965.