The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 51, July 1947 - April, 1948 Page: 178
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Mr. Walker is willing to send a copy of the manuscript to
anyone who will assist him in mapping the trail. It seems that
he has the original, but a photostat copy is in the Bancroft
Library.
The Time article also brought a letter from Ned Holman,
president of the First National Bank, Guthrie, Oklahoma. Mr.
Holman wanted the issue of the Junior Historian containing the
article by Dan Moody Williams entitled "The First White Child
Born in Texas." (J. H., II, September, 1941). Mr. Holman says:
My paternal grandmother was Nancy Burnam, and it has always
been my understanding that this child was born in Austin's Colony
very soon after it landed on the coast of Texas. ... The only thing
I have ever been able to find in Texas history pertaining to the
name of Burnam was in Wortham's History of Texas ... where refer-
ence was made to Burnam's Crossing on the Colorado River, and if
I remember rightly, it was near Weimar, Texas. ... I have never
found any written authority as to the birth of this child Nancy
Burnam.
Frank E. Vandiver, special graduate student at the University
of Texas, has edited the diary of General Josiah Gorgas, who
was Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate army. The book has
just been released by the University of Alabama Press. Those
interested in Confederate history can not afford to overlook this
book. The editor, Frank Vandiver, is also of interest. The San
Antonio Express of September 14 had this to say editorially
about him.
Special notice is due the editor of this historic diary, heretofore
stored away in the Library of Congress. Holder of a Rockefeller
Fellowship, an authority on Confederate ordnance and supply, and
contributor to Southern historical journals, Frank E. Vandiver of
Austin is but 21 years old.
Another unusual thing about Vandiver is that he has refused to
take formal work either in public schools or in, colleges and
universities. His interest in history began in early childhood and
has been pursued with a devotion rare in professional historians
and rarer still among graduate students.178
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