Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
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on the land, its plants and animals, and the settlers.
SCHMITZ, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _Thus They Lived_, Naylor, San Antonio, 1935. This would have been a good social history of Texas had the writer devoted ten more years to the subject. Unsatisfactory bibliography. SHIPMAN, DANIEL. _Frontier Life, 58 Years in Texas_, n.p., 1879. One of the pioneer reminiscences that should be reprinted. SMITH, HENRY. "Reminiscences," in _Southwestern Historical Quarterly_, Vol. XIV. Telling details. SMITHWICK, NOAH. _The Evolution of a State_, Austin, 1900. Reprinted by Steck, Austin, 1935. Best of all books dealing with life in early Texas. Bully reading. _Southwestern Historical Quarterly_, published since 1897 by Texas State Historical Association, Austin. A depository of all kinds of history; the first twenty-five or thirty volumes are the more interesting. SWEET, ALEXANDER E., and KNOX, J. ARMOY. _On a Mexican Mustang Through Texas_, Hartford, 1883. Humorous satire, often penetrating and ruddy with actuality. WALLIS, JONNIE LOCKHART. _Sixty Years on the Brazos: The Life and Letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart_, privately printed, Los Angeles, 1930. In notebook style, but as rare in |
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