Typescript manuscript of Jesse Sumpter's memoir, as dictated to Harry Warren. The memoir describes Sumpter's experiences in the Mexican War, and as one of the first settlers of Eagle Pass, Texas. Warren was an amateur historian, and deposited copies of the manuscript at several libraries, including the University of Texas in Austin. The memoir was edited and annotated by Ben E. Pingenot for the Encino Press in 1969, and published under the title "Paso Del Aguila: a Chronicle of Frontier Days on the Texas Border."
US TxSaT SC.000-055
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1902
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
US TxSaT SC.000-017
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1959
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Three manuscripts related to the 1888 San Antonio International Fair: a timeline of events, an account of the cattle roping contest, and an account of George W. Saunders's renowned steer named Geronimo.
US TxSaT SC.000-008
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1931
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Typed manuscript by R.L. Cartwright, "The Earliest American History of Texas," 1931.
US TxSaT SC.000-006
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1935
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Typescript copy of original manuscript memoirs by John Beldon Billingsley (1830-1904).
US TxSaT SC.000-005
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ca. 1906
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Typescript manuscript of the Autobiography of Andrew Davis (1827-1906).
US TxSaT SC.000-004
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1934
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts
"The Saga of Our Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches o the Lives of Pioneer Texans, Written for the Information and Pleasure of their Descendants by Maud Boyce Farrar, Waxahachie, Texas, 1934."
Contents:
- Rebecca Horton Boyce
- Mahaly, the slave woman
- Little Dog Penny
- The Aldredge Family
- Elizabeth Aldredge Boyce
- W.A. Boyce
- Nancy Owen Smith
- Hans Smith
- Lelia Smith Farrar
- Education of Her Children
- S.B. Farrar
- Genealogical Tables