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Waco: The Society, 1935. . Vols. I and II only, Nos. 1-7 (lacking No. 5). 8vo, printed wrappers, No. 1 damp-stained). Maps and illustrations. The early issues of this magazine are quite scarce.

College Station, Texas: The University, 1888. . 8vo, self-wrappers. This little pamphlet outlines the "Plan of Organization of the Experimental Station.

Ingram, Kerr County, Texas:: [The Camp],.. Fifteen halftones; [16] pp. 8vo, stiff printed wrappers, front pictoria. No other copy located; OCLC has a 1947 brochure for this camp which is still in existence today.Herbert Crate opened Camp Rio Vista in 1921 between Ingram and Hunt on the Guadalupe in Kerr County. One of the camp counselors was a young man called Roger Staubach, who later played for the Dallas Cowboys.Crate was the Director of the Houston YMCA. The parent organization had established camps along the eastern seaboard and Crate felt the idea would succeed in Texas.According to an article written by Jane Ragsdale in the Kerr County Album, Crate's first summer was not what he expected: He had been promised by a hundred men that they would send their sons if he opened a camp—however Crate found himself with 21 counselors, and only 16 boys. His words of wisdom for those who followed: “Never start a camp from scratch.”

S.l. : [The Organization, 1894-1903. . Tall narrow 8vo, pale green printed wrappers; marginal stain on fore- edge. Twelve holdings in Oclc--10 in Texas. Dedicated to Mrs. Lavinia Porter Talley, President of the Texas Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.Dating is based on the date of the founding of the D.O.C. and Mr. Osterhout's death in 1903.

[San Antonio, Texas:: The Compiler, Printed by the Press of the Clegg Company,.. Not illustrated; 56 + [i–iv] pp. Tall thin volume, stapled in the centerfold, 9 x 5 inches, brown very stiff card (simulated leather); title in gilt on front cover; some chipping at edges, corners, and spine. Three holdings in OCLC, all in Texas.Terrell says in his introductory remarks that one of his hobbies “has been the keeping of a scrapbook, into which I have incorporated, indiscriminately, verses, bits of eloquence and philosophy, of authors known and unknown.” He goes on to say that he authored none of the contents and remarks “You never can tell what one will keep and treasure, nor why.”The eldest son of J. O. Terrell, State Senator in the 19th and 20th Texas Legislatures, and elder brother of Chester Terrell, youngest Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He got his law degree at the University of Texas; then went into one of the family-associated law firms; during WWII he was Legal… Read More

S.l.:: s.n.,.. Not illustrated; [4] pp. 8vo, white stiff wrappers, front printed; one manuscript correction on p, [2]; 2-inch separation at foot of spine. OCLC lists one copy only (University of Texas at Austin)..The copy in Austin is assigned the date 1911—without explanation—as the Briscoe Center has the “John Avery Lomax Family Papers, 1842, 1853–1986” one must assume that they have external evidence of its printing. The poem is included in the 1919 collection Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp.

Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1936. . Small 4to, buff paper-covered boards, some soiling and chipping Reprint of the 1838 New York edition, limited to 300 numbered copies

Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1845. . 8vo, green printed front wrapper, back wrapper lacking. Signature of J. Kimball, Esq.on front wrapper. Held on January 29, 1845. New Englanders on the whole were opposed to admitting Texas as she would come in as a slave state, despite the fact that one of the provisions for allowing settlement in Texas was that prospective settlers give up their slaves and another criterion was that they adopt the Catholic faith, most did neither.The ownership signature on the front wrapper may be that of John P. Kimball, the author of "Laws and decrees of the state of Coahuila and Texas"

Austin: The Society, 1916-1925. . 3 volumes. 8vo, stiff wrappers, various colors; Vol. I with top outer corner mouse-gnawed, not affecting text and really only blunting the corner. Volume I is edited by Stith Thompson and Volumes II and IV by J. Frank Dobie.Covers African American, Hispanic and Native American folk lore and come into the 20th century with ÒOil Field DictionÓ. Volume I is edited by Stith Thompson and Volumes II and IV by J. Frank Dobie 

Brownsville, Tex. : Brownsville Historical Association et al, 1959. . Large folio, printed gray wrappers; very slight sunning to spine. Excellent condition. A facsimile of the New Orleans publication, originally printed by E. P. Brandad. OCLC lists 7 holdings for the original edition.Cracker Barrell Chronicles p. 66.