title: Bexar Scrip 2692
creator: Texas. General Land Office.
contributor: Doyle, M.  J.
contributor: Walker, James H.
publisher: Texas. General Land Office.
date: 1873/1928
language: English
description: Copy of a land Grant file for land issued to the Houston & Texas
 Central Railway Company in the Bexar Land District.  Includes a folder jacket
 with table of contents and notes about the land grant (filed July 12,
 1928);  field notes by M.J. Doyle, Deputy Surveyor, Bexar Land District for
 Section 21 Block 20 (January 13, 1873); the affidavit of ownership of S.N.
 Allen (July 12, 1928); and a note by Land Commissioner J.H. Walker indicating
 that the file has no relation to the O. Henry story of the same name (December
 4, 1933).  O. Henry’s story tells the tale of a Railroad baron taking a poor
 homesteader’s land by stealing this file.   Walker notes that although the
 file was missing for a period, due to office procedures the land fraud could
 not have occurred.
subject: Henry, O., 1862-1910.
subject: People - Individuals
subject: Business, Economics and Finance - Transportation - Railroads
subject: authors
subject: Texas. General Land Office
subject: Land grants
subject: Houston & Texas Central Railway Company
subject: Railroads—Texas, East
subject: field notes
subject: deeds
coverage: United States - Texas - Tom Green County
coverage: New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression,
 1877-1939
relation: Rolling Stones, OCLC# 3525781, ark:/67531/metapth139359
relation: Stories of the Old Land Office, ark:/67531/metapth139473
relation: Patent 87, Volume 40-A, ark:/67531/metapth139470
rights: Public
rights: Public Domain
type: Legal Document
format: 7 p. ; 28 cm.
format: Text
identifier: local-cont-no: 820618
identifier: local-cont-no: Bex S 002692
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154587/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth154587