New Acquisitions

Below is a list of the books the DRT Library has received and added to its collection since April 2009. For additional information about these and other works in our collections, please consult the library’s online catalog.

The History of Medicine in Brazos County by Frank G. Anderson, Jr., and Edith Anderson Wakefield

Early Texas Schools: A Photographic History by Mary S. Black, photographs by Bruce F. Jordan

Goliad: The Other Alamo by William R. Bradle

Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush by Paul H. Carlson

Moss Bluff Rebel: A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War by Philip Caudill

Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas by Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm and Sara R. Massey

Journey to Gonzales by Melodie A. Cuate

Emily Austin of Texas, 1795-1851 by Light Townsend Cummins

Historic Photos of San Antonio by Frank S. Faulkner, Jr.

Buffalo Music by Tracey E. Fern, illustrations by Lauren Castillo

The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886-1933 by Mary Jane Gentry

History of St. Mary’s Parish, Brenham, Texas: and Catholicism of Washington County and Early Texas researched and compiled by Bruno Gorzycki, edited by Wava Jackson

Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle by William T. Hagan

The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill

Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton by Kenneth Wayne Howell

Texas Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Forgotten Patriot of the Republic of Texas: Colonel Eleazar Louis Ripley Wheelock (1793-1847) by Mary Foster Hutchinson

The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War, 1874-1902 by David D. Johnson

The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal by Kate Sayen Kirkland

The Development of Early Emigrant Trails in the United States East of the Mississippi River by Marcus W. Lewis

On the Texas Trail of Cabeza de Vaca by Peter Lourie

An Expanded Genealogy of the Baker Family and Related Lines by Vircenoy Baker Macatee

Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas by Kelly McMichael

The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867 edited by Ginny McNeill Raska and Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill

Archaeological Survey and Historic Background Research Conducted for the Alamo Community College District at the Former Site of Playland Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas by Barbara Meissner

Storm Over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and Their Port by Mary Jo O’Rear

The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas by Chuck Parsons

Politics–Texas Style by W. R. Poage

Opening Doors: The Connelly Expedition by Rita M. Rogers

A History of the Baptists at Iredell, Texas by Donavon Duncan Tidwell

Texas Epic: An American Story by Martha Anne Turner

The Law Comes to Texas: The Texas Rangers, 1870-1901 by Frederick Wilkins

New Additions to the Collection

Here is a sample of some titles that the library added to its collection last month:

• The Sword Was Their Passport: A History of American Filibustering in the Mexican Revolution by Harris G. Warren.
• Photography on the South Texas Frontier: Images From the Witte Museum Collection by Bruce M. Shackelford.
• Martha Mary Overstreet, M.D. by Mary E. Penson (historical fiction for young adults).
• Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, April 22-23, 1924 (Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier is listed as First Vice President).

April Acquisitions

April was a busy month. Over 40 titles were added to our catalog. Here is a sampling of our new books:

The Reminiscences of Major General Zenas R. Bliss, 1854-1876: From the Texas Frontier to the Civil War and Back Again, edited by Thomas T. Smith …[et at.]

Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology, edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles.

The History of Texas Music, by Gary Hartman.

Petra’s Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy, by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick.

The Secret War for Texas, by Stuart Reid.