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How the Early Settlers Lived

DESPITE THE FACT that the tendency of a majority of early day
rememberers has been to emphasize Indian fights, killings, and
other sensational episodes, chronicles rich in the everyday
manners and customs of the folk are plentiful. The classic of
them all is Noah Smithwick's _The Evolution of a State_,
listed below.

See also "Backwoods Life and Humor," "Pioneer Doctors," "Women
Pioneers," "Fighting Texians."


BARKER, E. C. _The Austin Papers_. Four volumes of sources for
any theme in social history connected with colonial Texans.

BATES, ED. F. _History and Reminiscences of Denton County_,
Denton, Texas, 1918. A sample of much folk life found in
county histories.

BELL, HORACE. _On the Old West Coast_, New York, 1930. Social
history by anecdote. California. OP.

BRACHT, VIKTOR. _Texas in 1848_, translated from the German by
C. F. Schmidt, San Antonio, 1931. Better on natural resources
than on human inhabitants. OP.