Bexar Scrip 2692 (open access)

Bexar Scrip 2692

Copy of a land Grant file for land issued to the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company in the Bexar Land District. Includes a folder jacket with table of contents and notes about the land grant (filed July 12, 1928); field notes by M.J. Doyle, Deputy Surveyor, Bexar Land District for Section 21 Block 20 (January 13, 1873); the affidavit of ownership of S.N. Allen (July 12, 1928); and a note by Land Commissioner J.H. Walker indicating that the file has no relation to the O. Henry story of the same name (December 4, 1933). O. Henry’s story tells the tale of a Railroad baron taking a poor homesteader’s land by stealing this file. Walker notes that although the file was missing for a period, due to office procedures the land fraud could not have occurred.
Date: 1873/1928
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roads of Destiny (open access)

Roads of Destiny

This work is a collection of short stories by O. Henry, which are set in North and Central America.
Date: 1909
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Money Maze (open access)

Money Maze

A short story set in Central America. This story is said to have served as the literary foundation of "Cabbages and Kings."
Date: May 1901
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sixes and Sevens (open access)

Sixes and Sevens

This work is a collection of short stories by O. Henry. It was published posthumously.
Date: 1911
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waifs and Strays (open access)

Waifs and Strays

This work contains short stories by O. Henry and critical and biographical analyses of his life and works, which were written by various contributors.
Date: 1917
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabbages and Kings (open access)

Cabbages and Kings

This work is O. Henry's first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the author's six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s.
Date: 1904
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Strictly Business (open access)

Strictly Business

This work is a collection of short stories by O. Henry. It was published just before his death in 1910.
Date: 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trimmed Lamp (open access)

The Trimmed Lamp

This work is O. Henry's second collection of short stories set in New York City.
Date: 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heart of the West (open access)

Heart of the West

This work is a collection of short stories by O. Henry, which are set in Texas.
Date: 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whirligigs (open access)

Whirligigs

This work is a collection of short stories by O. Henry, which are set in New York City and the Western and Southern United States. The volume was published posthumously.
Date: 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History