New Library Acquisitions, January-June 2011

Below is a list of the materials received by and added to the collection of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library in the last six months. For additional information about these and other items in our collection, please consult the library’s online catalog.

Books, Non-Fiction

Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901, by Bob Alexander

Family History of Joseph de la Baume, compiled by Sylvia Villarreal Bisnar

Beyond Texas through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations, edited by Walter L. Buenger and Arnoldo De León

Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899: The Good and the Bad, by Clifford R. Caldwell and Ronald DeLord

Cherokee County, by the Cherokee County Historical Commission

Bible Records, Volume II: Margaret Montgomery Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution compiled by Lady E. Marchant Dalton, Genealogical Records Chapter Chairman

Intensive Pedestrian Archaeological Survey of the Loop 1604 San Antonio River Access Park, Bexar County, Texas, by Antonia L. Figuroa, Jason B. Perez, and Kristi M. Ulrich

Georgetown, Texas: Illustrated, by the Georgetown Citizens Club

Catholic Texans: Our Family Album, by Steve Landregan

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

Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas, by Richard B. McCaslin

An Intensive Pedestrian Archaeological Survey of the Helton San Antonio River Nature Park in Wilson County, Texas, by Cynthia M. Muñoz with a contribution by Raymond P. Mauldin

An Intensive Pedestrian Archaeological Survey of Five Northeast Independent School District Campuses in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, by Cynthia M. Muñoz with a contribution by Kristi M. Ulrich

Colonial Virginia to the Texas Frontier: The Alvis Clan, compiled by Mary Ellen Alvis Overstreet and edited by Theresa Lynn Overstreet Tobin

Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger, by Chuck Parsons

Historic Articles of Texas  1947-1949, by Charles W. Ramsdell, Jr. and compiled by Charles Michael Ramsdell; addition to the Charles Ramsdell Papers

Tyler (Images of America series), by Robert E. Reed, Jr.

The Staffel Archive: 1851-1865, transcribed, translated into English, and with introduction and annotations by Robert Nye Spencer with the collaboration of Robin Spencer

Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de La Garza and Manuel Yturri, edited and with an introduction by Jerry Thompson

Archaeological Investigations of the Theo Avenue Realignment, Mission Concepción Portal, and Concepción Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, by Kristi M. Ulrich

Some Notable Persons in First Street Cemetery of Waco, Texas, compiled by T. Bradford Willis, DDS, MSD

Books, Fiction

Berlandier: A French Naturalist on the Texas Frontier, a novel by James Kaye

Books, Professional Literature

Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation, by Bertrand Lavédrine

Poetry

The Bell of the Alamo and Other Texas Poems, by Amy Pearl Cozby

Blue Bonnets: The Texas Flower, by Amy Pearl Cozby

Periodicals

The Southwestern Magazine, published by the Students’ Association, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

Bulletin of Southwestern University: Georgetown, Texas, 1946

Sheet Music

A Frankie Carle Piano Transcription of  “On the Alamo,” music by Isham Jones and arrangement by Frankie Carle

Archival Collections

Andrew Jackson Sowell Family Papers, circa 1880-circa 1954, Col 14817

Electronic Resources

The Traveling Trio: Episode 07 — San Antonio, Texas, by Big Red Hat Productions

DRT Oral History Project: Interviews of Various Daughters of the Republic of Texas and others, by the DRT Library Committee

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.