Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Հատոր 22Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton Texas State Historical Association, 1919 |
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Հատոր 24 Eugene Campbell Barker,Herbert Eugene Bolton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1921 |
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Էջ 13 - The prosperity of Texas has been the object of my labors, the idol of my existence — it has assumed the character of a religion for the guidance of my thoughts...
Էջ 254 - So we went on our way and traversed the whole country to the South Sea, and our resolution was not shaken by the fear of great starvation, which the Indians said we should suffer (and indeed suffered) during the first seventeen days of travel. All along the river, and in the course of these seventeen days we received plenty of cowhides, and did not eat of their famous fruit (chacan), but our food consisted ( for each day) of a handful of deer-tallow, which' for that purpose we always sought to keep,...
Էջ 9 - General Regulations relative to the Colony 1. No person will be admitted as a settler, who does not produce satisfactory evidence of having supported the character of a moral. sober, and industrious citizen. 2. Each settler must, when called on by the Governor of said Province, take the oath of allegiance to the government exercising the sovereignty of the country. 3. Six hundred and forty acres of land will be granted to the head of each family, and in addition to that, three hundred and twenty...
Էջ 2 - He called me to his bedside," wrote Mrs. Austin, "and with much distress and difficulty of speech beged me to tell you to take his place and if god in his wisdom thought best to disappoint him in the accomplishment of his wishes and plans formed for the benefit of his family, he prayed him to extend his goodness to you and enable you to go on with the business in the same way he would have done.
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Էջ 9 - On the contrary it arose from a principle which is common to all North Americans, a feeling which is the natural offspring of the unbounded republican liberty enjoyed by all classes in the United States; that is...
Էջ 236 - ... and so obtrusive that in three hours we could not get through with them. The following day they brought us all the people of the village ; most of them had one eye clouded, while others were totally blind from the same cause, at which we were amazed. They are well built, of very good physique, and whiter than any we had met until then. There we began to see mountains...
Էջ 14 - If that Govt. should get hold of us and introduce its land system, thousands who are now on the move and who have not yet secured their titles would be totally ruined. The greatest misfortune that could befall Texas at this moment...
Էջ 130 - Oviedo, my com78 panion, said he preferred to go back, with some women of the Indians in whose company we had forded the cove and who had remained behind. I insisted he should not go and did all I could to prevail upon him to remain, but it was in vain. He went back and I remained alone among these Indians...