The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941 Page: 93
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Letters and Documents
The Union List of Newspapers (1937) lists known files of
American newspapers now available for reference, either in
libraries, newspaper offices, or private collections. It lists about
465 Texas towns and cities as now having, or having once had,
one or more newspapers published in them. Actually, 621
weekly and 125 daily newspapers were being published in 559
towns and cities in Texas in 1939. In addition, 219 periodicals
were being published in Texas that year.
A study of the "Union List" shows that the publishers of
some newspapers have complete files of their own publications;
many do not. There are few Texas papers of which complete
files exist in any library, and where such a file does not exist it is
usually of one of the largest papers in the State. Many former
Texas papers, now discontinued, are represented by no single
known copy in existence; many other discontinued newspapers
are represented by only a few known scattered copies in
libraries.
Tyler furnishes a case in point. The Supreme Court of Texas
met there before, during, and after the Civil War. Its Tyler
decisions were published in the Tyler Reporter, or Democrat,
or the merged Democrat and Reporter. Tyler was the home
of Governor O. M. Roberts before the war; it was a Secession
hot-bed, the site of a Confederate Armory, and the location of
the largest Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers
west of the Mississippi. The influential newspapers named
covered the period of agitation, secession, Civil War, and recon-
struction in one of the "Old South" sections of Texas. Today
one copy of one issue in 1863 may be found in the Rosenberg
Library in Galveston, one copy of an 1869 issue in the State
Library, one copy of an 1871 issue is in possession of Western
Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, and less than half a
dozen issues are in the University of Texas Library at Austin.
The rest apparently are "gone with the wind."
Where are the early issues of the Waco Examiner? Nacog-
doches Chronicle? Seguin Southern Confederacy? Or, more
recently, and along industrial lines, the Iron Clad (Rusk, 1888) ?
East Texas Pinery (Livingston, 1882-98)? Oil Belt News
(Eastland, 1918-26) ? Other industries have similarly had their
booms and declines recorded day by day by trained observers
on the ground as history unfolded.
Many of those accounts are gone forever. The various County93
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941, periodical, 1941; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146052/m1/101/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.