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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Contents: Seven chapters include I, historical background and first inhabitants-
Alvar Nufiez, Cabeza de Vaca; moundbuilders; Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle;
and Indians; II, empresario grant and settlement established by Martin de Le6n;
III, early pioneers-Margaret Wright, Martin de Le6n, John J. Linn, Margaret
Hardy Borland, and Fernando de Le6n; IV, early education in Victoria-public
schools, Nazareth Academy, and St. Joseph's School; V, cattle industry in Victoria
-beginning, cattle brands, early packing industry, and ranchmen (James Alfred
McFaddin and Dennis M. O'Connor); VI, early Victoria newspapers and editors-
discontinued papers (Victoria Democrat, Deutsche Zeitung fuer Texas, Review,
Guadalupe Valley Visitor, Daily Times, By the Way magazine, Cumberland Pres-
byterian, Guide) and Victoria Advocate and its editors (John Henry Brown,
Thomas Sterne, S. A. White, Victor M. Rose, F. R. Pridham, E. D. Linn); VII,
social development and group organizations. Appendix includes listings of mayors
of Victoria, 1839-1902; of postmasters, 1846-1899; and of editors and publishers of
the Advocate, 1846-19go1. Congratulations to the Victoria Advocate in 1889 and
"Victoria Regina," a poem by Victor M. Rose, are also appended.
Tx948/B477. Loc., MEX., S. TEX., ED., RANCH., NEWS., G. C.
BIESELE, RUDOLPH LEOPOLD - Ph.D., June, 1928 [26]
The History of the German Settlements in Texas, 1831-1861. xi+4o5
PP.
Illustrations: birth certificate of Anna Marie Klein; immigration contract of Jo-
hann Michael Jahn; immigration contract of C. F. Giesecke; Heinemann redemp-
tion contract; Remmler redemption contract with Gustav Hoffmann; Sophienburg,
headquarters of Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels; Vereinskirche or Kaffeemuehle.
Maps: (1) Bourgeois-Ducos and Fisher-Miller grants; (2 and 3) two maps of
Fisher-Miller grants; (4) Comal tract bought by Prince Solms-Braunfels on March
14, 1845; (5) plats of New Braunfels, (6) Fredericksburg, and (7) Carlshafen.
Tables: none
Contents: Eleven chapters include German background; interest in German col-
onization of Texas; German settlements on the lower Brazos, Colorado, and Guada-
lupe rivers-Industry, Biegel's Settlement (Biegel's Post Office), Cat Spring, Frels-
burg, Blumenthal, Shelby (Roedersmuehle), Nassau Farm Settlement, Ross Prairie,
Millheim, San Bernard, New Ulm, Berlin, Yorktown, Coletoville (Steiner's Settle-
ment), Meyersville, O'Quinn Settlement, Welcome, High Hill, Round Top; Society
for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas, its organization, and its
acquisition of two colonization contracts; colonization preparations made by the
society; New Braunfels, its founding, and its early history; Fredericksburg, Castell,
Leiningen, Schoenburg, and Bettina; Sisterdale, Boerne, Comfort, and other Ger-
man settlements in West Texas-Comaltown, Hortontown, Yorks Creek, Schummans-
ville, Valley Post Office, Neighborsville, Live Oak Settlement, Pedernales Settlement,
Grape Creek, Caldwellshill, Cherry Spring; relations between German settlers and
Indians; German settlers in politics; economic and social life among the German
settlements. Appendices include discussion of topographical errors in early maps
of Fisher-Miller grant; Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas; and
form of immigration agreement used in 1846.
Published: The History of the German Settlements in Texas, 1831-1861, Austin
(Von Boeckmann-Jones Company), 1930. A few changes were made in the arrange-
ment of the work; three maps, several illustrations, and an index were added.
TDzg28/B478. GER., COL., MEx., REP., ST., IND., PoL.
BIRGE, MAMIE - M.A., June, 1911 [27]
The Casas Revolution, 1811: The First Period of Independence in
Texas. iv+43 pp. 251/2 cm.
Illustrations: none
Maps: none
Tables: none
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