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Books about Texas:

• Braman's Information About Texas (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1857), by D. E. E. Braman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Braman's Information About Texas (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1858), by D. E. E. Braman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at MOA
• Texas As It Is Today (Austin: Gammel's Book Store, 1925), by Alfred E. Menn (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States (first edition; Boston: J. Munroe and Co., 1837), by William Ellery Channing
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States (second edition; Boston: J. Munroe and Co., 1837), by William Ellery Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of Dr. Channing's letter to Hon. Henry Clay (Boston: W. D. Ticknor, 1837), by Citizen of Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas, and Her Relations With Mexico: Speech of Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan. 8, 1845 (1845), by Robert Dale Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Texas and the Massachusetts Resolutions (Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1844), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• The Argument of Wm. P. Duval, on Claim of the Citizens of Texas for Compensation for the Property Taken From Them by the Camanche Indians, Since the Annexation of That State to the United States, by William Pope Duval (page images at MOA)
• 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

• Bibliography of Texas, 1795-1845 (3 parts in 5 volumes; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955-1960), by Thomas W. Streeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliography of Texas: Being a Descriptive List of Books, Pamphlets, and Documents Relating to Texas In Print and Manuscript Since 1536, Including a Complete Collation of the Laws; With an Introductory Essay on the Materials of Early Texan History (Austin, TX: Pub. for the author by the Gammel Book Co., 1896), by Cadwell Walton Raines
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Handbook of Texas (current online edition, with continuing updates as of 2025), ed. by Louis Tuffly Ellis, James W. Pohl, and Ron Tyler (searchable HTML at tshaonline.org)
• Ernst Hermann Altgelt, Founder of Comfort, Kendall County, Texas (2010), by Anne Stewart and Mike Stewart (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence (Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1944), by Louis Wiltz Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Men Who Made Texas Free: The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Sketches of Their Lives and Patriotic Services to the Republic and State, With a Facsimile of the Declaration of Independence (Houston: Texas Historical Publishing Co., c1924), by Sam Houston Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Texas and Texans (5 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914), by Frank W. Johnson, ed. by Eugene C. Barker, contrib. by Ernest William Winkler
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (State history, pp. 1 - 610): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (County histories, pp. 613 - 1059): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Biography, pp. 1063 - 1594): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (Biography, pp. 1595 - 2140): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Biography, pp. 2141 - 2672): multiple formats at Google
• A History of Texas and Texans (5 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1916), by Frank W. Johnson, ed. by Eugene C. Barker, contrib. by Ernest William Winkler (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Handbook of Texas (first edition, 2 volumes; Austin: Texas State Historical Assocation, 1952), ed. by Walter Prescott Webb, H. Bailey Carroll, Llerena Friend, Mary Joe Carroll, and Louise Nolen
  • Volume I (A-K): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (L-Z): page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cowboy: or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (with bibliograpical study; New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1950), by Charles A. Siringo, contrib. by J. Frank Dobie, illust. by Tom Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian Depredations in Texas: Reliable Accounts of Battles, Wars, Adventures, Forays, Murders, Massacres. etc., etc., Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of the Most Noted Indian Fighters and Frontiersmen of Texas (second edition; Austin, TX: Hutchings Printing House, 1890), by J. W. Wilbarger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Following the Drum (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by Teresa Griffin Vielé (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: M. Umbdenstock and Co., 1885), by Charles A. Siringo
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: Siringo and Dobson, 1886), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Melvin C. Johnson
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Diamond Jubilee, 1847-1922, of the Diocese of Galveston and St. Mary's Cathedral, Compiled by the Priests of the Seminary (ca. 1922), ed. by James Martin Kirwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)
• Guide to Texas Emigrants (Boston: Trustees of Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, 1835), by David Woodman (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• Mr. Greeley's Letters From Texas and the Lower Mississippi: To Which are Added His Address to the Farmers of Texas, and His Speech on His Return to New York, June 12, 1871, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
• Notes Taken During the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., Through Unexplored Texas, in the Summer and Fall of 1854 (Philadelphia: Hayes and Zell, 1856), by W. B. Parker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quatre Mois au Texas: Notes de Voyage (in French; Mons: H. Manceaux, 1887), by A. Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. Louis' Isle, or Texiana; With Additional Observations Made in the United States and in Canada (London: Simmonds and Ward, 1847), by Charles Hooton (Javascript-dependent page images in Germany)
• Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, or, Yachting in the New World (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber and Co., 1845), by Matilda Charlotte Houstoun (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• Following the Drum (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by Teresa Griffin Vielé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness: or, Thirty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras, by Z. N. Morrell (page images at MOA)
• The Rachel Plummer Narrative: A Stirring Narrative of Adventure, Hardship and Privation in the Early Days of Texas, Depicting Struggles with the Indians and Other Adventures (reprint of most of Parker's "Narrative" and the second edition of Plummer's story; c1926), by James W. Parker and Rachael Plummer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution of the Republic of Mexico, and of the State of Coahuila and Texas; Containing Also an Abridgement of the Laws of the General and State Governments, Relating to Colonization; With Sundry Other Laws and Documents Not Before Published, Particularly Relating to Coahuila and Texas (New York: Ludwig and Tolefree, 1832), trans. by Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, contrib. by Mexico and Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Journey Through Texas: or, A Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier, by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of the Perilous Adventures, Miraculous Escapes and Sufferings of Rev. James W. Parker, During a Frontier Residence in Texas, of Fifteen Years; With an Impartial Geographical Description of the Climate, Soil, Timber, Water, &c., &c., &c. of Texas (with Plummer's captivity narrative; Louisville, KY Printed at the Morning Courier Office, 1844), by James W. Parker and Rachael Plummer (negative page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes Taken During the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., Through Unexplored Texas, in the Summer and Fall of 1854 (Philadelphia: Hayes and Zell, 1856), by W. B. Parker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Guide to Texas Emigrants (Boston: Trustees of Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, 1835), by David Woodman (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• The Handbook of Texas (current online edition, with continuing updates as of 2025), ed. by Louis Tuffly Ellis, James W. Pohl, and Ron Tyler (searchable HTML at tshaonline.org)
• The Handbook of Texas (first edition, 2 volumes; Austin: Texas State Historical Assocation, 1952), ed. by Walter Prescott Webb, H. Bailey Carroll, Llerena Friend, Mary Joe Carroll, and Louise Nolen
  • Volume I (A-K): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (L-Z): page images at HathiTrust

• The Tin Box: A Story of Texas Cattle and Oil (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1958), by Jerome Aredell Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the Revolution: A Novel (c2021), by Robert Evans, illust. by Tavia Morra (HTML and Epub files with commentary at atrbook.com)
• The Husband in Texas (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1913), by Ella Harley, illust. by Pauline Harley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sheriff of Pecos (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by H. Bedford-Jones (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Texan: A Story of the Cattle Country (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1918), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text)
• The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty, by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • page images at uky.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• A Texas Matchmaker (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904), by Andy Adams, illust. by E. Boyd Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A State of Disobedience (c2003), by Tom Kratman (HTML with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• Murder in Texas (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by Ada E. Lingo (page images at HathiTrust)
• North of 36 (illustrated with scenes from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1923), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wire Cutters (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by M. E. M. Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Imperium in Imperio, by Sutton E. Griggs (Gutenberg text)

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Books by Texas:

• Texas: The Constitution, As Amended, and Ordinances of the Convention of 1866, Together With the Proclamation of the Governor Declaring the Ratification of the Amendments to the Constitution, and the General Laws of the Regular Session of the Eleventh Legislature of the State of Texas (Austin: J. Walker, 1866) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Texas: Constitution of the Republic of Texas, To Which is Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, Made in Convention, March 2, 1836 (Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1836), contrib. by Robert Hamilton and George Campbell Childress
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Texas: Constitution of the State of Texas, Adopted by the Constitutional Convention Begun in the City of Austin, Texas on September 6th, 1875, and Finished November 24th, 1875 (with notes by the editor; Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1901), ed. by D. B. Axtell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Texas: Constitution of the State of Texas, Adopted by the Constitutional Convention Convened Under the Reconstruction Acts of Congress passed March 2, 1867, and the Acts Supplementary Thereto: To Be Submitted for Ratification or Rejection at an Election to Take Place on the First Monday of July, 1869 (Austin: Printed at the Daily Republican Office, 1869) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Texas: The Constitution of the State of Texas, as Amended in 1861; The Constitution of the Confederate States of America; The Ordinances of the Texas Convention: and an Address to the People of Texas (Austin: Printed by J. Marshall, 1861), contrib. by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Texas: Constitutions (1824-1876, with supporting material) (HTML at utexas.edu)
• Texas: Laws of the Eighth Legislature of the State of Texas: Extra Session (Austin: Printed by J. Marshall and Co., 1861)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Texas: Laws of the Republic of Texas, in Two Volumes (Houston: Printed at the Office of the Telegraph, 1838) (bound with two later volumes of laws: page images at HathiTrust)
• Texas: The Terrell Election Law, Embracing All Amendments to Date (Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann Jones Co., 1908)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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