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Acknowledgements
We are deeply indebted to Barbara Likan, Katherine V. Wei-
siger and Carolyn F. Moore who not only proposed to the mem-
bers of the Austin Branch, American Association of University
Women, but also conceived, initiated and developed the idea of
this publication. We also thank Kay Goodwin, Donna Johnson
and Dorothy Shandera, successive Austin Branch presidents, for
adopting this publication for a project and for keeping the project
moving.
Special thanks are offered to Gene Brownrigg, Executive
Director of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of
Texas, for her firm belief in the historic value of the project and her
subsequent support of its approval by the Commission so that it
became the only single project that the Commission not only en-
dorsed but also funded. We are grateful to the Institute of Texan
Culture at San Antonio for the help its staff has rendered.
We feel extremely fortunate in securing twenty-four bio-
graphers who opened their family records and gave us stories of
their own pioneer women. Also we are grateful to the other eight-
een authors who prepared stories of women who came early to
Texas but were not their kith and kin. Their research often in-
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Carrington, Evelyn M. Women in Early Texas, book, 1993; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth296851/m1/19/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.