The Samuel May Williams Home
The Samuel May Williams Home

Author: Margaret Swett Henson

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1625110146

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Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite—Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others—a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself.

The Texas That Might Have Been
The Texas That Might Have Been

Author: Albert Sidney Johnston

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1603443711

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Although Sam Houston would eventually emerge as the dominant shaper of the developing Texas Republic's destiny, many visions competed for preeminence. One of Houston's sharpest critics, Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston, is the subject of this fascinating edition of letters from the period.

Galveston Island, or, A Few Months off the Coast of Texas
Galveston Island, or, A Few Months off the Coast of Texas

Author: Francis C. Sheridan

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0292755872

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On the last Sunday of the year 1839, Francis Sheridan, an elegant young Irishman in the British diplomatic service, sailed from Barbados for the Republic of Texas. His mission in the new nation was to contribute the opinion of an eyewitness to the deliberations going on in London concerning proposed recognition of Texas. This jounal contains some of the material that Sheridan used for his official report and much colorful detail that he did not use. First published by the University of Texas Press in 1956, it is the travel diary of a sophisticated and discerning student of human nature.