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A "glimpse" of ranch life, circa 1902 -- The making of a cowboy, 1902-1921 -- The Farmers' Alliance : the Cleburne Platform, August 7, 1886 -- Some experiences of an early surveyor in the Texas Panhandle, 1887 -- The Texas Anti-Trust Law, March 30, 1889 -- Demands of the Texas Federation of Labor, July 3, 1889 -- Governor James S. Hogg on railroad regulation, January 21, 1891 -- The Populist Party : its first state platform, August 17-18, 1891 -- The Greer County Dispute, March 16, 1896 -- The great Galveston Hurricane, September 8, 1900 -- Special report by the Weather Bureau, September, 1900 -- A reporter's description of Galveston after the storm, September 10-11, 1900 -- Spindletop and the beginning of the modern oil industry, 1901-1903 -- The Spindletop discovery, January 10, 1901 -- Life in an oil field boom town, October, 1903 -- The High Plains : a geological description, 1901 -- The Terrell Election Law, May 14, 1905 -- Joseph Weldon Bailey and "Baileyism," January 23, 1907 -- Prohibition versus local option, 1908-1910 -- The Anti-Prohibitionists' Platform, October 12, 1908 -- The Prohibitionists' Platform and Resolutions, December 8, 1910 -- James E. Ferguson : his platform and his impeachment -- Ferguson's first gubernatorial platform, November 15, 1913 -- The impeachment of Governor Ferguson, September 24, 1917 -- The Ku Klux Klan Creed, July, 1923 -- Nixon v. Herndon : the Texas "White Primary" Law invalidated, March 7, 1927 -- The Transaction Tax : Governor W. Lee O'Daniel's revenue proposal, January 18, 1939 -- Smith v. Texas : Negroes and Grand Jury Service, November 25, 1940 -- Smith v. Allwright : the "White Primary" Case, April 3, 1944 -- The Gilmer-Aikin School Laws, June 1 and 8, 1949 -- Sweatt v. Painter : desegregation of institutions of higher learning, June 5, 1950 -- The Tidelands Case, June 5, 1950 -- Hurricane Carla, September 3-15, 1961. The first Europeans in Texas, 1528-1536 -- Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked on the Texas coast -- Cabeza de Vaca at the Spanish Court -- The De Soto-Moscoso Expedition, 1539-1543 -- Who De Soto was -- De Soto's death and the selection of his successor -- Where and why Moscoso turned back -- The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1541 -- The nature of Gran Quivira -- Castañeda's description of the High Plains -- Coronado's report to the King -- La Salle in Texas, 1685-1687 -- Establishing Fort St. Louis -- La Salle's search for the Mississippi -- The end of La Salle's Expedition -- The Spaniards find La Salle's settlement, April 22, 1689 -- Spain's first occupation of East Texas, 1690 -- The Spanish reoccupation of Texas : the Ramón Expedition, April-July 1716 -- La Harpe's attempt to establish trade with the Spaniards, March 1, 1719-May 1, 1720 -- Aguayo's recovery of East Texas, 1719-1722 -- Rubí's report on the San Saba establishment, August, 1767 -- The Rubí recommendations on Texas, April 10, 1768 -- A new defense policy for the Northern Frontier, June 9-15, 1778 -- The founding of Nacogdoches, January-May, 1779 -- A Census of Spanish Texas, December 31, 1783 -- The Texas Missions, 1785 -- Philip Nolan's filibustering expedition, 1800-1801 -- The Neutral Ground Agreement, October 29 and November 4, 1806 -- James Wilkinson to Governor Anthony [Antonio] Cordero [y Bustamente], Octr. 29th, 1806 -- Symon de Herrera to James Wilkinson, Nov. 4th, 1806 -- The Government of Texas, November 7, 1811 -- Texas' first Declaration of Independence and first Constitution, April 6 and 17, 1813 -- The Declaration of Independence, April 6, 1813 -- The Constitution of the State of Texas, April 17, 1813 -- Treaty establishing the boundary between Texas and the United States, February 22, 1819 -- James Long : the last of the filibusters, 1819 -- The Moses Austin Family, 1765-1837 -- The Mexican Colonization Laws, January 4, 1823, August 18, 1824, and March 24, 1825 -- The Imperial Colonization Law, January 4, 1823 -- The National Colonization Law, August 18, 1824 -- The Coahuila-Texas State Colonization Law, March 24, 1825 -- The Old Three Hundred, 1824-1828 -- De Witt's Empresario Contract, April 15, 1825 -- The Fredonian Declaration of Independence, December 21, 1826 -- The Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas, March 11, 1827 -- San Felipe de Austin : the Anglo-American colonial capital of Texas, 1828-1831 -- The Law of April 6, 1830 -- Manuel Mier y Terán's letter to President Guadalupe Victoria, June 30, 1828 -- The Law of April 6, 1830 -- The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company and the sale of Land Scrip, 1831 -- Trust deed of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, January 1, 1831 -- Letter offering Land Scrip for sale and comments by a purchaser, 1831 -- Travel accommodations and customs in Colonial Texas, March-May, 1831 -- Life in Colonial Texas, December, 1831 -- Why the colonists attacked Bradburn at Anahuac, June, 1832 -- The Turtle Bayou Resolutions, June 13, 1832 -- The Convention of 1833, April 1-13, 1833 -- Austin's address explaining why the Convention was called, April 1, 1833 -- The memorial to Congress requesting separate statehood, April, 1833 -- The proposed Constitution for the State of Texas, April 13, 1833 -- Austin's letter describing his imprisonment, May 10, 1834 -- Almonte's description of Texas, 1834 -- The Department of Béxar -- The Department of the Brazos -- The Department of Nacogdoches -- Austin's address at Brazoria on the necessity of a consultation, September 8, 1835 -- The Texas Declaration of Causes for Taking up Arms against Santa Anna, November 7, 1835 -- Plan and powers of the Provisional Government of Texas, November 13, 1835 -- The resolution calling for the Convention of March 1, 1836, December 10, 1835 -- Treaty with the Cherokee Indians, February 23, 1836 -- The fall of the Alamo -- Travis' letter of February 24, 1836 -- Travis' last appeal for aid, March 3, 1836 -- Colonel Ruíz's report of the scene after the fall of the garrison, March 6, 1836 -- The Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836 -- The Constitution of the Republic of Texas, March 17, 1836 -- The Goliad Campaign and Massacre, March, 1836 -- The Runaway Scrape, March-April, 1836 -- The Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836 -- Houston's official report, April 25, 1836 -- Colonel Pedro Delgado's account -- The Treaty of Velasco, May 14, 1836 -- An abolitionist's explanation of the cause of the Texas Revolution, 1836 -- A description of the towns of Texas, 1836 -- President Houston's first Inaugural Address, October 22, 1836 -- The boundary of Texas established, December 19, 1836 -- President Lamar's policies -- Lamar's Inaugural Address, December 10, 1838 -- Lamar's message to Congress, December 21, 1838 -- The Homestead Law, January 26, 1839 -- The selection of a site for the permanent capital of Texas, April 13, 1839 -- The Treaty with France, September 24, 1839 -- The Council House Fight, March 19, 1840 -- The treaties with Great Britain -- Convention for British Mediation with Mexico, November 14, 1840 -- Treaty between the Republic of Texas and Great Britain for the Suppression of African Slave Trade, November 16, 1840 -- Lamar's address to the people of Santa Fe, June 5, 1841 -- The first college in Texas, 1841-42 -- Drawing the black beans : the Mier prisoners, March 25, 1843 -- Treaty of Bird's Fort, September 29, 1843 -- President Tyler proposes Annexation, October 16, 1843 -- The Treaty of Annexation, April 12, 1844 -- The Treaty of Tehuacana Creek, October 9, 1844 -- The Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845 -- A preliminary treaty with Mexico, May 19, 1845 -- The Annexation offer accepted, July 4, 1845 -- The Texas Constitution of 1845, August 28, 1845 -- "The Republic of Texas is no more," February 19, 1846 -- President Polk claims the Rio Grande as the boundary between Texas and Mexico, November 10, 1845, and May 11, 1846 -- Polk's instructions to Slidell, November 10, 1845 -- Polk's war message, May 11, 1846 -- A Texan's view of the War with Mexico, May 13, 1846 -- Treaty Establishing the Rio Grande as the Boundary between Texas and Mexico, February 2, 1848 -- Journal of a plantation, 1848 -- The Sons of Temperance: Constitution of the Chapter at Austin, Texas, March 22, 1849 -- An early Texas high school, December 31, 1849 -- Address -- Constitution -- Establishment of the Texas-New Mexico boundary, September 9, 1850 -- Governor Bell's message to the legislature, August 13, 1850 -- Report of the Committee of Thirteen, May 8, 1850 -- The Texas-New Mexico Boundary Act, September 9, 1850 -- The establishment of the Texas school system, January 31, 1854 -- Texas before the Civil War: a Yankee's description, December 1853-May 1854 -- The home of an East Texas cattleman -- The home of an East Texas planter -- The Germans of New Braunfels -- The Legislature at work -- The American (Know-Nothing) Party platform, January 21-22, 1856 -- The Camel Experiment, June 24-August 15, 1860 -- Texas secedes from the Union, February 1 and 2, 1861 -- The Ordinance of Succession, February 1, 1861 -- A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union -- Governor Houston deposed, March 16, 1861 -- The Battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863 -- General Franklin's report, September 11, 1863 -- Lieutenant Dowling's report, September 9, 1863 -- John's Plan of Reconstruction, 1865 -- Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation, May 29, 1865 -- Johnson's Proclamation of the Restoration of Civil Government for Texas, June 17, 1865 -- Granger's Proclamation Abolishing Slavery in Texas, June 19, 1865 -- John H. Reagan's Fort Warren Prison letter on Reconstruction, August 11, 1865 -- President Johnson's Proclamation Recognizing the Restoration of Civil Government in Texas, August 20, 1866 -- The Congressional Plan of Reconstruction, March 2, March 23, and July 19, 1867 -- The First Congressional Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867 -- The Second Congressional Reconstruction Act, March 23, 1867 -- The Third Reconstruction Act, July 19, 1867 -- Chief Ten Bears' speech setting forth the case of the Comanches at the Council of Medicine Lodge, October 20, 1867 -- The ritual of a secret society, June 4, 1868 -- Texas v. White : the Constitutionality of Reconstruction, 1869 -- The Constitution of the State of West Texas, January, 1869 -- The Constitution of 1869, February 8, 1869 -- The Tax-Payers' Convention, September 22-25, 1871 -- Report of the Committee of Twenty-one on Violations of Constitution and Laws -- Report of the Committee of Twenty-one on Taxes and Statistics -- The Semi-Colon Court : the Rodriguez Case, January 5, 1874 -- President Grant refuses to support Davis, January 12 and 17, 1874 -- Declaration of Purposes of the National Grange, February, 1874 -- The extermination of the buffalo, January-April, 1875 -- Governor O.M. Roberts' Land Policy, 1879 -- Roberts' Recommendation on the Sale of Public Lands, January 21, 1879 -- The Land Law of 1879, July 14, 1879 -- The Fence-Cutting War and efforts to end it -- The Fence-Gate Law, February 6, 1884 -- A Texas Ranger's efforts to catch fence-cutters, August-October, 1888 -- The cattle kingdom -- The wild longhorn cattle, 1850's -- Managing a trail herd, 1865-1888.