Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

For many years adventurers from Spain and France had explored Texas. For about fifty years Spain had tried to civilize and Christianize the Indians in East Texas. Finally the Spanish government had abolished the missions and presidios. During the following fifty years, very little had been done toward colonization in Texas. In 1821, Texas was an almost uninhabited country, with the exception of savage Indians. The Anglo-Americans came and changed it into a great state. The East Texas Timber Region has been the gateway through which most of the settlers came to Texas. The settlers who stopped there did their part in establishing the present state of Texas. The East Texans did their part in helping to win freedom from Mexico so they could lay a foundation for American civilization there.

Monthly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national religious news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

The subject of this manuscript is the Texas Rangers “clean-up” of San Augustine, which was undertaken between late January 1935 until approximately July 1936 at the direction of then newly-elected Governor James V. Allred, in response to the local “troubles” that arose from an near decade long “crime wave.” Allred had been elected on a platform advocating dramatic reform of state law enforcement, and the success of the “clean-up” was heralded as validation of those reforms, which included the creation of – and the Rangers’ integration into – the Texas Department of Public Safety that same year. Despite such historic significance for the community of San Augustine, the state, and the Texas Rangers, no detailed account has ever been published. The few existing published accounts are terse, vague, and inadequate to address the relevant issues. They are often also overly reliant on limited oral accounts and substantially factually flawed, thereby rendering their interpretive analysis moot in regard to certain issues. Additionally, it is a period of San Augustine’s history that haunts that community to this day, particularly as a result of the wide-ranging myths that have taken hold in the absence of a thoroughly researched and documented published account. Concerns …

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Annual journal of the Texas Archeological Society documenting research and findings of members as well as activities of the organization.

Weekly newspaper from the San Augustine, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from the San Augustine, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Appendices for the water plan for Region I (East Texas) including water management strategies, water needs, water conservation methods, species of concern in the area, financing methods, and related reports.