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1 Documents of lexas History SECOND EDITION edited by Ernest Wallace David M. Vigness & George B. Ward Texas State Historical Association Austin, Texas 2002

2 of Contents 1. The First Europeans in Texas, Cabeza de Vaca Shipwrecked on the Texas Coast 1 2. Cabeza de Vaca at the Spanish Court The De Soto-Moscoso Expedition, Who De Soto Was 3 2. De Soto's Death and the Selection of His Successor 3 3. Where and Why Moscoso Turned Back The Coronado Expedition, The Nature of Gran Quivira 5 2. Castaneda's Description of the High Plains Coronado's Report to the King 6 4. La Salle in Texas, Establishing Fort St. Louis 8 2. La Salle's Search for the Mississippi The End of La Salle's Expedition The Spaniards Find La Salle's Settlement, April 22, Spain's First Occupation of East Texas, The Spanish Reoccupation of Texas: The Ramon Expedition, April-July, La Harpe's Attempt to Establish Trade with the Spaniards, March 1, 1719-May 1, Aguayo's Recovery of East Texas, Rubi's Report on the San Saba Establishment, August, The Rubi Recommendations on Texas, April 10, A New Defense Policy for the Northern Frontier, June 9-15, The Founding of Nacogdoches, January- May, A Census of Spanish Texas, December 31, The Texas Missions, Philip Nolan's Filibustering Expedition, The Neutral Ground Agreement, October 29 and November 4, James Wilkinson to Governor Anthony [Antonio] Cordero [y Bustamente], Octr. 29th, Symon de Herrera to James Wilkinson, Nov. 4th, 1806 f The Government of Texas, November 7, Texas' First Declaration of Independence and First Constitution, April 6 and 17, The Declaration of Independence, April 6, The Constitution of the State of Texas, April 17, Treaty Establishing the Boundary between Texas and the United States, February 22, James Long: the Last of the Filibusters, The Moses Austin Family, The Mexican Colonization Laws, January 4, 1823, August 18, 1824, and March 24, The Imperial Colonization Law, January 4, The National Colonization Law, August 18, The Coahuila-Texas State Colonization Law, March 24, The Old Three Hundred, De Witt's Empresario Contract, April 15, The Fredonian Declaration of Independence, December 21, The Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas, March 11, San Felipe de Austin: the Anglo-American Colonial Capital of Texas, The Law of April 6, Manuel Mier y Terin's Letter to President Guadalupe Victoria, June 30, The Law of April 6, The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company and the Sale of Land Scrip, Trust Deed of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, January 1, Letter Offering Land Scrip for Sale and Comments by a Purchaser, Travel Accommodations and Customs in Colonial Texas, March-May, Life in Colonial Texas, December, Why the Colonists Attacked Bradburn at Anahuac, June, The Turtle Bayou Resolutions, June 13, The Convention of 1833, April 1-13, Austin's Address Explaining Why the Convention Was Called, April 1, The Memorial to Congress Requesting Separate Statehood, April, The Proposed Constitution for the State of Texas, April 13, Austin's Letter Describing His Imprisonment, May 10, Almonte's Description of Texas, The Department of Be"xar The Department of the Brazos' The Department of Nacogdoches

3 x Documents of Texas History 38. Austin's Address at Brazoria on the Necessity of a Consultation, September 8, The Texas Declaration of Causes for Taking up Arms against Santa Anna, November 7, Plan and Powers of the Provisional Government of Texas, November 13, The Resolution Calling for the Convention of March 1,1836, December 10, Treaty with the Cherokee Indians, February 23, The Fall of the Alamo Travis' Letter of February 24, Travis' Last Appeal for Aid, March 3, Colonel Ruiz's Report of the Scene after the Fall of the Garrison, March 6, The Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, The Constitution of the Republic of Texas, March 17, The Goliad Campaign and Massacre, March, The Runaway Scrape, March-April, The Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, Houston's Official Report, April 25, Colonel Pedro Delgado's Account The Treaty of Velasco, May 14, An Abolitionist's Explanation of the Cause of the Texas Revolution, A Description of the Towns of Texas, President Houston's First Inaugural Address, October 22, The Boundary of Texas Established, December 19, President Lamar's Policies Lamar's Inaugural Address, December 10, Lamar's Message to Congress, December 21, The Homestead Law, January 26, The Selection of a Site for the Permanent Capital of Texas, April 13, The Treaty with France, September 25, The Council House Fight, March 19, The Treaties with Great Britain Convention for British Mediation with Mexico, November 14, Treaty between the Republic of Texas and Great Britain for the Suppression of African Slave Trade, November 16, Lamar's Address to the People of Santa Fe, June 5, The First College in Texas, Drawing the Black Beans: The Mier Prisoners, March 25, Treaty of Bird's Fort, September 29, President Tyler Proposes Annexation, October 16, The Treaty of Annexation, April 12, The Treaty of Tehuacana Creek, October 9, The Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, A Preliminary Treaty with Mexico, May 19, The Annexation Offer Accepted, July 4, The Texas Constitution of 1845, August 28, "The Republic of Texas Is No More," February 19, President Polk Claims the Rio Grande as the Boundary between Texas and Mexico, November 10, 1845, and May 11, Polk's Instructions to Slidell, November 10, Polk's War Message, May 11, A Texan's View of the War with Mexico, May 13, Treaty Establishing the Rio Grande as the Boundary between Texas and Mexico, February 2, Journal of a Plantation, The Sons of Temperance: Constitution of the Chapter at Austin, Texas, March 22, An Early Texas High School, December 31, Address Cpnstitution Establishment of the Texas-New Mexico Boundary, September 9, Governor Bell's Message to the Legislature, August 13, Report of the Committee of Thirteen, May 8, The Texas-New Mexico Boundary Act, September 9, The Establishment of the Texas School System, January 31, Texas before the Civil War: A Yankee's Description, December 1853-May The Home of an East Texas Cattleman The Home of an East Texas Planter The Germans of New Braunfels The Legislature at Work The American (Know-Nothing) Party Platform, January 21-22,

4 Table of Contents xi 82. The Camel Experiment, June 24-August 15, Texas Secedes from the Union, February 1 and 2, The Ordinance of Secession, February 1, A Declaration of the Causes Which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union Governor Houston Deposed, March 16, The Battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, General Franklin's Report, September 11, Lieutenant Dowling's Report, September 9, Johnson's Plan of Reconstruction, Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation, May 29, Johnson's Proclamation of the Restoration of Civil Government for Texas, June 17, Granger's Proclamation Abolishing Slavery in Texas, June 19, John H. Reagan's Fort Warren Prison Letter on Reconstruction, August 11, President Johnson's Proclamation Recognizing the Restoration of Civil Government in Texas, August 20, The Congressional Plan of Reconstruction, March 2, March 23, and July 19, The First Congressional Reconstruction Act, March 2, The Second Reconstruction Act, March 23, The Third Reconstruction Act, July 19, Chief Ten Bears' Speech Setting Forth the Case of the Comanches at the Council of Medicine Lodge, October 20, The Ritual of a Secret Society, June 4, Texas v. White: The Constitutionality of Reconstruction, The Constitution of the State of West Texas, January, The Constitution of 1869, February 8, The Tax-Payers' Convention, September 22-25, Report of the Committee of Twenty-one on Violations of Constitution and Laws Report of the Committee of Twenty-one on Taxes and Statistics The Semi-Colon Court: The Rodriguez Case, January 5, President Grant Refuses to Support Davis, January 12 and 17, Declaration of Purposes of the National Grange, February, The Extermination of the Buffalo, January- April, Governor O. M. Roberts' Land Policy, Roberts' Recommendation on the Sale of Public Lands, January 21, The Land Law of 1879, July 14, The Fence-Cutting War and Efforts To End It The Fence-Gate Law, February 6, A Texas Ranger's Efforts to Catch Fence-Cutters, August October, The Cattle Kingdom The Wild Longhorn Cattle, 1850's Managing a Trail Herd, A "Glimpse" of Ranch Life, Circa The Making of a Cowboy, The Farmers' Alliance: The Cleburne Platform, August 7, Some Experiences of an Early Surveyor in the Texas Panhandle, The Texas Anti-Trust Law, March 30, Demands of the Texas Federation of Labor, July 3, Governor James S. Hogg on Railroad Regulation, January 21, The Populist Party: Its First State Platform, August 17-18, The Greer County Dispute, March 16, The Great Galveston Hurricane, September 8, Special Report by the Weather Bureau, September, A Reporter's Description of Galveston after the Storm, September 10-11, Spindletop and the Beginning of the Modern Oil Industry, The Spindletop Discovery, January 10, Life in an Oil Field Boom Town, October, The High Plains: A Geological Description, The Terrell Election Law, May 14, Joseph Weldon Bailey and "Baileyism," January 23, Prohibition versus Local Option, The Anti-Prohibitionists' Platform, October 12, The Prohibitionists' Platform and Resolutions, December 8, James E. Ferguson: His Platform and His Impeachment 268

5 xii Documents of Texas History 1. Ferguson's First Gubernatorial Platform, November 15, The Impeachment of Governor Ferguson, September 24, The Ku Klux Klan Creed, July, Nixon v. Herndon: The Texas "White Primary" Law Invalidated, March 7, The Transaction Tax: Governor W. Lee O'DaniePs Revenue Proposal, January 18, Smith v. Texas: Negroes and Grand Jury Service, November 25, Smith v. Allwright: The "White Primary" Case, April 3, The Gilmer-Aikin School Laws, June 1 and 8, Sweatt v. Painter: Desegregation of Institutions of Higher Learning, June 5, The Tidelands Case, June 5, Hurricane Carla, September 3-15, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, November 22, Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, The Great Society, May 22, The American Promise, March 15, Cotulla, Texas, November 7, Peace, March 31, Violence in Texas: The Charles J. Whitman Shooting, August 1, The First Man on the Moon Talks to Houston, July 20, La Raza Unida Party, The Sharpstown Scandal, Roe v. Wade: Abortion Legalized, January 22, The Big Thicket National Preserve Established, October 11, Big Thicket Controversy, September 29, Big Thicket Legislation, October 11, A Republican and a Woman Inaugurated as Governors of Texas, January 16,1979, and January 15, William P. Clements Jr.: Inauguration Speech, January 16, Ann Richards: Inauguration Speech, January 15, Larry McMurtry Publishes Novel Lonesome Dove, The Oil Boom and Bust and the Savings & Loan Scandal, Edgewood v. Kirb^: The Funding of Education in Texas, January 22, The Texas Lottery, Opposition to the Lottery, October The Lottery Established, Barbara Jordan's Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention, July 13, The Dallas Cowboys: America's Team, Index 327