An account of Col. Crockett's tour to the North and down East, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four : his object being to examine the grand manufacturing establishments of the country : and also to find out the condition of its literature and morals, the extent of its commerce, and the practical operation of "The Experiment" (open access)

An account of Col. Crockett's tour to the North and down East, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four : his object being to examine the grand manufacturing establishments of the country : and also to find out the condition of its literature and morals, the extent of its commerce, and the practical operation of "The Experiment"

"Object being to examine the grand manufacturing establishments of the country; and also to find out the condition of its literature and morals, the extent of its commerce, and the practical operation of 'The Experiment'"
Date: 1835
Creator: Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
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. (open access)

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.

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
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Correspondencia que ha mediado entre la Legación Extraordinaria de México y el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos sobre el paso del Sabina por las tropas que mandaba el General Gaines. (open access)

Correspondencia que ha mediado entre la Legación Extraordinaria de México y el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos sobre el paso del Sabina por las tropas que mandaba el General Gaines.

Correspondence between the Mexican delegation and the U.S. Dept. of State.
Date: 1838
Creator: Mexico. Legación (U.S.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of the Revolution in Texas, Particularly of the War of 1835 & '36; Together With the Latest Geographical, Topographical, and Statistical Accounts of the Country, From the Most Authentic Sources. Also, an Appendix. (open access)

History of the Revolution in Texas, Particularly of the War of 1835 & '36; Together With the Latest Geographical, Topographical, and Statistical Accounts of the Country, From the Most Authentic Sources. Also, an Appendix.

Book outlining the history of the Texas Revolution and a description of Texas geography, with a map, as well as an appendix containing personal accounts and text excerpts about specific events.
Date: 1838
Creator: Newell, Chester
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas, its claims to be recognised as an independent power by Great Britain : examined in a series of letters (open access)

Texas, its claims to be recognised as an independent power by Great Britain : examined in a series of letters

Texas, its claims to be recognised as an independent power by Great Britain : examined in a series of letters / by John Scoble.
Date: 1839
Creator: Scoble, John
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1 (open access)

Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1

Notes and descriptions of things seen during the author's visit to the United States from 1838-1840. Includes detailed information on visits to various institutions, people met, and the author's views on religion and education.
Date: 1841
Creator: Combe, George, 1788-1858
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 3 (open access)

Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 3

Notes and descriptions of things seen during the author's visit to the United States from 1838-1840. Includes detailed information on visits to various institutions, people met, and the author's views on religion and education.
Date: 1841
Creator: Combe, George, 1788-1858
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1 (open access)

Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1

None
Date: January 1, 1841
Creator: Kennedy, William
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2 (open access)

Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2

None
Date: 1841
Creator: Kennedy, William
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas and the Massachusetts Resolutions (open access)

Texas and the Massachusetts Resolutions

Pamphlet containing an essay against the annexation of Texas, compiled from a series of newspaper columns.
Date: January 1, 1844
Creator: Adams, Charles Francis
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations (open access)

Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Anti-Texass Legion
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Constitution of the state of Texas. (open access)

The Constitution of the state of Texas.

A copy of the Texas state constitution from 1850.
Date: 1850
Creator: Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1 (open access)

History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1

Book describing Texas history up to the time of annexation to the United States of America. This first volume is broken into 22 chapters covering the start of European immigration (roughly 1685) through the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1835, with a number of appendices containing supplementary information.
Date: 1855
Creator: Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 2 (open access)

History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 2

Book describing Texas history; this second volume is broken into 14 chapters covering the start of the Republic of Texas in 1835 through annexation by the U.S. in 1846, with a number of appendices containing supplementary information.
Date: 1855
Creator: Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix (open access)

Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix

The observations of Frederick Law Olmsted as he journeyed through Texas in the 1850s.
Date: January 1, 1857
Creator: Olmsted, Frederick Law
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Memoranda and official correspondence relating to the Republic of Texas, its history and annexation. Including a brief autobiography of the author (open access)

Memoranda and official correspondence relating to the Republic of Texas, its history and annexation. Including a brief autobiography of the author

None
Date: January 1, 1859
Creator: Jones, Anson
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Maud C. Fentress to her son David, November 30, 1861] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from Maud C. Fentress to her son David, November 30, 1861]

Transcript of a letter from Maud Fentress to her son David in which she discusses Frank's illness; the problems Jimmie has had in his Company; and the reluctance of some men to go to war. She tells him the current price of swine. She continues to give a description of the division of Union and Confederacy supporters around her. She finishes the letter with news of the war, the shortage of physicians, and the people she knows who are unwell.
Date: November 30, 1861
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The treachery in Texas, the secession of Texas, and the arrest of the United States officers and soldiers serving in Texas. Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 25, 1861. By Major J. T. Sprague, U. S. A. (open access)

The treachery in Texas, the secession of Texas, and the arrest of the United States officers and soldiers serving in Texas. Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 25, 1861. By Major J. T. Sprague, U. S. A.

The treachery in Texas, the secession of Texas, and the arrest of the United States officers and soldiers serving in Texas. Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 25, 1861. By Major J. T. Sprague, U. S. A.
Date: 1862
Creator: Sprague, John Titcomb
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant to Charles Moore, September 11, 1863] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant to Charles Moore, September 11, 1863]

Transcript of a letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant, describing divisions of Union and Confederate loyalty amongst friends and neighbors and their own story of being refugees. In addition, their crops are doing well but there aren't enough laborers to work the fields.
Date: September 11, 1863
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tri-Weekly Telegraph. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 85, Ed. 1 Monday, October 5, 1863 (open access)

The Tri-Weekly Telegraph. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 85, Ed. 1 Monday, October 5, 1863

Tri-weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with some advertising.
Date: October 5, 1863
Creator: Cushing, E. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
New York Herald (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 28, No. 319, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 17, 1863 (open access)

New York Herald (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 28, No. 319, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 17, 1863

Daily newspaper from New York, New York that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 17, 1863
Creator: Bennett, James Gordon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union.  Volume 1. (open access)

The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union. Volume 1.

Volume one of a two-volume set gives a historical overview of slavery and the abolition movement in the U.S., records events leading to secession, and details political and military action early in the Civil War. Chapter XII (pp. 147-177) discusses the annexation of Texas to the United States. Analytical index begins on p. 633.
Date: 1864
Creator: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Tri-Weekly News. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 94, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1864 (open access)

The Galveston Tri-Weekly News. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 94, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1864

Tri-weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 12, 1864
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Tri-Weekly News. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1864 (open access)

The Galveston Tri-Weekly News. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1864

Tri-weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 26, 1864
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History