The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Biographical Sketch of the Author
Chapter 1: Journey to the Land of Promise-first impressions;
Dewitt's Colony
Chapter 2: Trip to interior—Victoria, Gonzales, LaGrange,
Columbus; Karankawa Indians; Creasing a Mustang; Encounter with
malarial fever; Night adventure in Brazos bottom; Ft. Bend; Bexar;
Mistake of a life time; Murder of Early; An avenging Nemesis;
Eventful career of the murderer
Chapter 3: Bell's Landing (Columbia); Josiah Bell; Other old
residents; Slavery; Social events; Weddings, etc.
Chapter 4: A smuggling trip to old Mexico; First introduction
to horsemeat; San Fernando; Ancient customs and prejudices;
Practicing medicine; Ampirico Indians; Trip to silver mines;
Smuggling adventures; An "old Moke"
Chapter 5: San Felipe de Austin; Pen pictures; Prominent men,
Anecdotes of; Professional men; Social happenings; Early Colonists;
Duels; Colonial Poet; Character of early Colonists; How it feels to
be a homicide; Banished; Left a malediction on the place
Chapter 6: The Redlands—general character of; San of the land;
Notorious counterfeiter; Mob law; Precious metal; Brown's mine; A
noted horsethief
Chapter 7: Return to Texas; The gathering of the clans; First
flag; March to San Antonio; Battle of Concepcion Mission
Chapter 8: Joined the ranging service; First Indian fight;
Rescue of Mrs. Hibbon's child; The old Tumlinson block-house
Chapter 9: The Mexican invasion; Fall of the Alamo; "The
runaway scrape;" Massacre of Goliad; Battle of San Jacinto;
Division of spoils; Jim Bowie; Noted duel; Sam Houston
Chapter 10: Army falls back to Victoria; Peter Carr; Incidents
of army life; Gen. Rusk; Disbanding of army
Chapter 11: Rangers return to frontier; Coleman's fort; Social
event in Bastrop Co.; "The Color line;" Frontier clothing; Col.
Coleman; Surprising a Comanche camp
Chapter 12: A return surprise; Stampeding a Caballado;
Anecdotes of field and chase; Cure for fistula; Old frontiersmen;
Commissioner to Indians
Chapter 13: Camping with Comanches; Comanche language; Social
and domestic customs; Indian song; Political affairs;
Amusements
Chapter 14: A tight place; Conclusion of treaty; Michael
Andrews; Organization of Bastrop Co.; Old seals of office
Chapter 15: Stone-house fight; Second attempt to treat with
Comanches; Narrow escapes; Tumlinson's Rangers; Eastland's Co.; Nat
Turner's insurrection
Chapter 16: The San Saba Indian fight; A bad horse trade;
Battle of Brushy Creek; "Flacco Colonel"
Chapter 17: Webber's Prairie; Old settlers; Humble heroes;
First postoffice; First justice; Official record; Social features;
Financial affairs; Exchange
Chapter 19: Council house fight; Victoria and Linnville sacked;
Plum Creek fight; Dark days; Woll's invasion; Dawson Massacre; A
ride for life; Reuben Hornsby and family
Chapter 20: Founding of Austin City; Early arrivals; Land
grabbers; John Caldwell
Chapter 21: Santa Fe, Mier, and Bexar prisoners in Mexico;
Stories of their suffering and illtreatment; Murder of Mark B.
Lewis; The Archive war; Cherokee war
Chapter 22: Annexation; R. E. B. Baylor; Mexican war; Texans in
the war; Occupation by the United States Army; Army officers;
Public debt; Removal to Brushy Creek; Wolves; Neighbors; Early
emigrants to California
Chapter 23: Old Ft. Croggin; Officers in command; Early
settlers; Burnet Co. organized; The town of Burnet; Mormon Mills
and settlement; Character of Mormons; Schools
Chapter 24: Bear hunting; Advent of Galveston News; The agents'
adventure; Old acquaintances; Social gatherings; Christening of
Marble Falls; Camp meetings
Chapter 25: Double Horn; Hickory Creek; Smithwick's Mill; High
Water; Fight with runaway slaves; Grasshoppers; Indian trial
Chapter 26: Troublous times; Fleeing from the wrath to come;
Preparation for departure; The last farewell to Texas; Off for
California; Incidents enroute; Scenes along the Rio Grande;
Arizona; Apache Indians; A. Sidney Johnston; First encounter with
Indians; Tucson; Mysterious murder; Down the home stretch; Ft.
Yuma; Last forced march; The great Colorado desert
About the Author
After his Texas years, Noah Smithwick (1808–1899) spent the rest of
his life in California. He was one of the first members of the
Texas State Historical Association.
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