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• Memorial to the General Congress of the United Mexican States (Brazoria: Printed by D. W. Anthony, ca. 1833), by Texas Convention of 1833 (PDF at Yale)
• Representacion Dirijida por el Ilustre Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Bexar al Honorable Congreso del Estado, Manifestando los Males que Aflijen los Pueblos de Texas, y los Agravios que Han Sufrido Desde la Reunion de Estos con Coahuila (in Spanish; Brazoria, TX: D. W. Anthony, 1833), by San Antonio Ayuntamiento and Coahuila and Texas Congreso (PDF at Yale)
• Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas: 1788-1822, ed. by Malcolm D. McLean (page images at Wayback Machine)
• Athanase de Mézières and the Louisiana-Texas frontier, 1768-1780 : documents published for the first time, from the original Spanish and French manuscripts, chiefly in the archives of Mexico and Spain; translated into English (A.H. Clark Co., 1914), by Herbert Eugene Bolton and Athanase de Mézières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas Treasury papers; letters received in the Treasury Department of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1846. (Texas State Library, 1955), by Texas. Treasury Department and Seymour V. Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (A. C. Baldwin, printers, 1921), by Mirabeau B. Lamar, Harriet Smither, Winnie Allen, Katherine Elliott, Charles A. Gulick, and Texas State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Terán expedition into Texas and Louisiana; translation of the original documents with introduction and notes. (1914), by Florence Edith Barth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition. (C.J. Folsom :, 1842), by George Folsom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The archives of Bexar... ([Austin, Tex., 1899), by Lester Gladstone Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decretos y órdenes del primer Congreso mexicano. (Impr. del supremo gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, en Palacio, 1825), by Mexico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Don Domingo Ramón's diary of his expedition into Texas in 1716 (St. Edward's University, Headquarters of the Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission, 1933), by José Domingo Ramón and Paul J. Foik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Solis diary of 1767 (Texas Knight of Columbus Historical Commission], 1931), by José de Solis and Peter P. Forrestal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A report on the Spanish archives in San Antonio, Texas (Yanaguana society, 1937), by Carlos E. Castañeda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Derrotero de la expedicion en la provincia de los Texas, nuevo reyno de Philipinas, que de orden del excmo. señor marquès de Valero, vi-rey, y capitan general de esta Nueva-España passa à executar el muy illustre señor d. Joseph de Azlor, cavallero mesnadero del reyno de Aragõ, marques de S. Miguel de Aguayo, governador, y capitan general de dichas provincias de Texas, Nuevas Philipinas, y de esta de Coaguila, nuevo reyno de Estremadura (En la Imprenta nueva plantiniana de Juan Francisco de Ortega Bonilla; en la calle de Tacuba, 1722), by Juan Antonio de la Peña (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Austin papers, October, 1834-January, 1837 (The University of Texas, 1927), by Moses Austin, Eugene C. Barker, and Stephen F. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Constitution or Form of Government of the State of Texas: Made in General Convention, in the Town of San Felipe De Austin, in the Month of April, 1833 (New Orleans, LA: Printed at the Office of the Commercial bulletin, 1833) (PDF at Yale)
• Difficulties of a Mexican Revenue Officer in Texas (reprinted from Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association: 1901), by Eugene C. Barker
  • page images at Portal to Texas History
  • as appeared in the Quarterly; page images at JSTOR
• Tejas: La Primera Desmembración de Méjico (in Spanish; Madrid: Editorial-América, ca. 1917), by Carlos Pereyra
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Letters of an Early American Traveller: Mary Austin Holley, Her Life and Her Works, 1784-1846 (Dallas: Southwest Press, c1933), by Mary Austin Holley and Mattie Austin Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibal Coast (San Antonio: Naylor Co., c1959), by Edward W. Kilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, 1519-1936 (7 volumes (with the 7th volume also covering 1936-1950); Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1936-1958), by Carlos E. Castañeda, contrib. by Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; v6 and 7 US access only)
• The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., c1900), by Noah Smithwick, ed. by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Political sketches of eight years in Washington : in four parts, with annotations to each ; also a general appendix ; an alphabetical index ; and a series of charts, giving a comparative synopsis of the constitutions of the several states, and the United States (F. Lucas, Jr. ;, 1839), by Robert Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexico and Texas, 1821-1835; University of Texas research lectures on the causes of the Texas revolution (P.L. Turner, 1928), by Eugene C. Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The beginnings of Texas history", address of Claude Pollard (Printed by E. L. Mendenhall, 1921), by Claude Pollard and Texas Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas ([Editora Nacional], 1957), by Vicente Filísola (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Texas and the Mexican war; a chronicle of the winning of the Southwest (Yale University Press, 1921), by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas in the middle eighteenth century; studies in Spanish colonial history and administration (University of California Press, 1915), by Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas and the Mexican war; a chronicle of the winning of the Southwest (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The republic of Texas a brief history of Texas from the first American colonies in 1821 to annexation in 1846 (C.C. Young Printing Co., 1922), by Clarence Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish and French rivalry in the Gulf region of the United States, 1678-1702; the beginnings of Texas and Pensacola (The University, 1917), by William E. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas in the middle eighteenth century : studies in Spanish colonial history and administration. (Russell & Russell, 1962), by Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Green flag over Texas; a story of the last years of Spain in Texas (The Cordova press, inc., 1939), by Julia Kathryn Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas ... (R. Hastings, 1841), by William Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1922), by Asa Kyrus Christian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The winning of the far West; a history of the regaining of Texas, of the Mexican war, and the Oregon question; and of the successive additions to the territory of the United States, within the continent of America: 1829-1867 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Robert McNutt McElroy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the discovery of the Mississippi, and on the south-western, Oregon, and north-western boundary of the United States. (S. Clarke, 1844), by Thomas Falconer, Henri de Tonti, and Robert Cavelier La Salle (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 (Redfield, 1856), by Henderson K. Yoakum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some difficulties of a Texas empresario. (Harrisburg publishing company, 1899), by Lester G. Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scraps of early Texas history. (The author, 1884), by Mary S. Helm and Elias R. Wightman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yachting in the new world (G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845), by Matilda Charlotte Houstoun and G.B. Zieber & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die länder am untern Rio Bravo del Norte. (In commission bei J. C. B. Mohr, 1861), by Adolph Uhde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings of Texas, 1684-1718 (The University of Texas, 1907), by Robert Carlton Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas and the Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-West; including a history of leading events in Mexico, from the conquest by Fernando Cortes to the termination of the Texan revolution ... (Thomas, Cowperthwait & co., 1841), by Henry S. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Alamo. (E.P. Dutton, 1948), by John Myers Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of South America and Mexico; comprising their discovery, geography, politics, commerce and revolutions (H. Huntington, jun, 1837), by John M. Niles and L.T. Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sam Houston and his republic (Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1846), by C. Edwards Lester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opening of Texas to foreign settlement, 1801-1821 (The University, 1927), by Mattie Austin Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas : the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas (Molyneaux Craftsmen, 1925), by William Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900 (Priv. print. [Press of Dunn bros.], 1930), by John Washington Lockhart, Laurance Landreth Hill, and Jonnie Wallis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Louisiana-Texas frontier ... ([Austin, Tex., 1906), by Isaac Joslin Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 (Steck, 1935), by H. 1810-1856 Yoakum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church and state, or, Mexican politics from Cortez to Diaz. (Peck & Clark, printers, 1896), by William F. Cloud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early explorations and mission establishments in Texas (The Naylor company, 1936), by Edward Werner Heusinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Stephen F. Austin, founder of Texas, 1793-1836; a chapter in the Westward movement of the Anglo-American people. (AMS Press, 1970), by Eugene Campbell Barker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings of the general convention of delegates representing the citizens and inhabitants of Texas; held at the town of San Felipe, in Austin's colony, the first week of October, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two. (Published by D.W. Anthony, 1832), by Tex.) General Convention of Delegates Representing the Citizens and Inhabitants of Texas (1832 : San Felipe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from an early settler of Texas. ([New Albany tribune print.], 1858), by William Bluford DeWees and Cara Cardelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Texan emigrant : being a narration of the adventures of the author in Texas, and a description of the soil, climate, productions, minerals, towns, bays, harbors, rivers, institutions, and manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country : together with the principal incidents of fifteen years revolution in Mexico : and embracing a condensed statement of interesting events in Texas, from the first European settlement in 1692, down to the year 1840 (G. Conclin, 1840), by Edward Stiff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas (Impr. de I. Cumplido, 1849), by Vicente Filísola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annexation of the Texas : a case of war between England and the United States (James Maynard, 1844), by David Urquhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The republic of Texas; a brief history of Texas from the first American colonies in 1821 to annexation in 1846 (C. C. Young, 1922), by Clarence Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish and French rivalry in the Gulf region of the United States, 1678-1702; the beginnings of Texas and Pensacola (The University, 1917), by William E. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Barradas à Baudin, un libro de polemica historial. (Tipografía Económica, 1904), by Carlos Pereyra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures on popular subjects (T. K. Collins, jr., 1851), by Henry W. Hilliard, Sam Houston, and Henry S. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• South America and Mexico (H. Huntington, Jun., 1838), by John M. Niles and L. T. Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas and her presidents. With a glance at her climate and agricultural capabilities. (E. Winchester, New World Press ..., 1845), by Cora Montgomery and John B. Forrest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from an early settler of Texas (Morton & Griswold, 1852), by William Bluford DeWees and Emaretta C. Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Stephen F. Austin, founder of Texas, 1793-1836 : a chapter in the Westward movement of the Anglo-American people (Cokesbury Press, 1926), by Eugene Campbell Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas history stories (B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1901), by Elbridge Gerry Littlejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Texas frontier, 1820-1825 (Harrisburg publishing company, 1900), by Lester Gladstone Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scraps of early Texas history (The author, 1884), by Mary S. Helm and Elias R. Wightman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new history of Texas (G. Conelin, 1847), by Edward Stiff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new history of Texas (G. Conclin, 1847), by Edward Stiff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish activities on the lower Trinity River, 1746-1771 (Texas state historical association, 1913), by Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spanish and French rivalry in the Gulf region of the United States, 1678-1702; the beginnings of Texas and Pensacola (The University, 1917), by William E. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas and the Gulf of Mexico (G. B. Zieber & co., 1845), by Mrs. Houstoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the republic of Texas, from the discovery of the country to the present time : and the cause of her separation from the republic of Mexico. (Smith, Elder and Co., 1842), by N. Doran Maillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier in politics (Yale University Press, 1919), by Nathaniel W. Stephenson, Frederic Austin Ogg, and Allen Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of fifty years in Texas (The Steck company, 1935), by John J. Linn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Texas scrap-book : made up of the history, biography, and miscellany of Texas and its people (Brookhaven Press, 2001), by D. W. C. Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from an early settler of Texas. (Hull & brothers, printers, 1854), by William Bluford DeWees and Cara Cardelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle's colony in Texas (1914), by Florence Belle Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selection of editorial articles from the St. Louis Enquirer on the subject of Oregon and Texas (Missourian Office, 1844), by Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of the Coahuila-Texas frontier, 1670-1700 (1917), by Mildred Ide Gorham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and work of Alonso de Leon, seventeenth century pioneer. (1916), by Marie Elizabeth Bradford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Texas : from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 (Redfield, 1855), by Henderson K. Yoakum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Texas and the Mexican war; a chronicle of winning of the Southwest (Glasgow, Brook;, 1921), by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft history of the North Mexican states and Texas : vol. I, 1531-1800. (A.L. Bancroft, 1884), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas and the Mexican War a chronicle of the winning of the Southwest (Yale University Press;, 1921), by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The republic of Texas ([s.n], 1922), by Clarence Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The republic of Texas; a brief history of Texas from the first American colonies in 1821 to annexation in 1846 (C.C. Young printing company, 1922), by Clarence Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The destruction of the San Saba Mission and the Parilla [i.e. Parrilla] Expedition (1923), by Henry Easton Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas: the rise, progress and prospects of the Republic of Texas. (R. Hastings, 1841), by William Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ramón expedition, 1715-1716 : a translation of the sources (1914), by Carolyn Beatrice Scull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of Texas from 1715-1724 (1925), by Eugene Albert Taliaferro (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of South America and Mexico ; comprising their discovery, geography, politics, commerce and revolutions. (H. Huntington, jun., 1839), by John M. Niles and L. T. Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• Castro-ville and Henry Castro, empresario. (Standard printing company, 1934), by Julia Nott Waugh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trofeo de la jvsticia española en el castigo de la alevosia francesa que al abrigo de la armada de Barlovento, executaron los lanzeros de la isla de Santo Domingo, en los que de aquella nacion ocupan sus costas. (Los Herederos de la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1691), by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invasión de los norte-americanos en México, obra histórica ... (Imprenta del editor, 1890), by Emilio del Castillo Negrete (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opusculo sobre la historia de Coahuila (s.l.], 1922), by Carlos E. Suárez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Breve apologia que el coronel D. José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara hace de las imposturas calumniosas que se le artículan en un folleto intitulado "Levantamiento de un General en las Tamaulipas contra la República o Muerto que se le aparece al gobierno en aquel estado" (Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León, 1990), by José Bernardo Maximiliano Gutiérrez de Lara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gallant outcasts. (Naylor Co., 1963), by Ben Cuellar Ximenes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Spanish search for La Salle's colony on the bay of Espiritu Santo, 1685-1689 (Texas State Historical Association, 1916), by William E. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The six flags of Texas (distributed under the auspices of the Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission, 1932), by Carlos Eduardo Castañeda and Paul J. Foik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romantic story of Texas (The Cordova press, inc., 1936), by Peter Molyneaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 (Steck-Vaughn, 1855), by Henderson K. Yoakum (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 (Steck-Vaughn, 1961), by Henderson K. Yoakum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Don Erasmo Seguin; a Spanish aristocrat, a trusted agent of Governor Martinez a counselor of Stephen F. Austin, an able Deputy of the Mexican State of Texas to the National Congress, a patriot of the Republic of Texas and loyal citizen of the American Commonwealth. (San Antonio, Tex., 1900), by J. M. Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spanish abandonment and reoccupation of east Texas, 1773-1779. (1906), by Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish defeat of the Napoleonic confederation in America (The Municipal university of Wichita, 1944), by John Rydjord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas. : Observations, historical, geographical and descriptive, in a series of letters, written during a visit to Austin's colony, with a view of a permanent settlement in that country, in the autumn of 1831. (Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833), by Mary Austin Holley and Armstrong & Plaskitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cavalier in Texas (The Naylor Company, 1935), by Julia Vivian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of George Fisher, 1795-1873, and the history of the Fisher family in Mississippi (H. & W. B. Drew, 1959), by Mary Fisher Parmenter, Lawrence Edward Mallette, and Walter Russell Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and work of Stephen F. Austin ([n.p., 1910), by L. A. Wight (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Texas Revolution and Mexican War (subtheme). (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1959), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The real Philip Nolan ([Oxford, Miss., 1901), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Refugio mission (Refugio timely remarks, 1942) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Texas scrap book made up of the history, biography and miscellany of Texas and its people (Austin, Tex. : Steck Co., 1935., 1935), by D. W. C. Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 (New York : Redfield, [1935?], 1935), by Henderson K. Yoakum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conquest of the Southwest: a discussion of the charges that the colonization of Texas and the revolution against Mexico were the results of a movement of the "slavocracy" to increase slave territory, or of the activity of Andrew Jackson, through Samuel Houston, to accomplish the same result. (Shaw Publishing Company, 1924), by Elton Raymond Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from the history of Texas ([Dallas, Tex., 1929), by Willard Frances Scarborough (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The frontier in politics. Part 1: The reign of Andrew Jackson (Yale University Press; [etc, etc., 1926), by Frederic Austin Ogg and Nathaniel Wright Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Texas and the Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-West (The Steck company, 1935), by Henry S. Foote (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The first Texas agency at New Orleans in 1836 (1912), by Stuart Harkins Condron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas (Impr. de I. Cumplido, 1849), by Vicente Filísola (page images at HathiTrust)

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