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You don’t have to fight in a battle to become a real-life Texas hero. There are a number of books we want to add to the stacks. Please consider giving one of the titles below to the library, so that researchers, scholars and everyday citizens get the full story of Texas' heritage.

To donate one of these books, contact:

Herstein Library
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One Monument Circle
La Porte (Houston), TX 77571-9585

281.479.2421

library@sanjacinto-museum.org

  1. Almaráz, Jr., Félix. D. Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. ISBN 089096890X

  2. Bauer, K. Jack. The Mexican War, 1846-1848. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ISBN 0803261071

  3. Boswell, Angela. Her Act and Deed: Women’s Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. ISBN 1585441287

  4. Bruce, Henry. Life of Gen. Houston, 1793-1863. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1891.

  5. Bryan, Lewis R. An Address Delivered on the 51st Anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, with Introduction by Paul G. Bell, Jr. San Jacinto Monument: San Jacinto Museum of History Association, 1980.

  6. Butterfield, Jack C. Men of the Alamo, Goliad and San Jacinto. San Antonio: Naylor, 1936.

  7. Caruso, A. Brooke. The Mexican Spy Company: United States Covert Operations in Mexico, 1845-1848.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991. ISBN 0899506305 

  8. Dary, David. The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore. New York: A. A. Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0375403612 

  9. Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas - Book 4. Austin: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1993.

  10. Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. For years 1974, 1985, 1992, 1998, 2000 to present.  Thanks to the San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas for donating some of the issues we lack! 

  11. Davis, William C. Three Roads to the Alamo.  New York: HarperCollins, 1999. ISBN 0060173343

  12. DeVault, Jan. The Ladies and the Battlefield: A Partial Chronology of the Efforts of the San Jacinto Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, to Save and Preserve the San Jacinto Battlefield, 1891 to 1999. Texas?: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, San Jacinto Chapter, 1999.

  13. Everett, Dianna.  The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840. Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. ISBN 080612296X

  14. Gournay, Luke.  Texas Boundaries: Evolution of the State’s Counties.  College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. ISBN 0890966532

  15. Guthrie, Keith. Raw Frontier vol. 2: Survival to Prosperity along the Texas Coastal Bend. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 2000. ISBN 1571683399

  16. Harrigan, Stephen. The Gates of the Alamo. New York: A. A. Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0679447172

  17. Hatley, Allen G. The Indian Wars in Stephen F. Austin’s Texas Colony, 1822-1935.  Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 2001. ISBN 1571685014

  18. Jackson, Andrew. The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1980-1996. Vols. 1-4 ISBN 0870492195 (v.1); 0870494414 (v.2); 0870496506 (v.3); 0870497782 (v.4); 1572331747 (v.6)

  19. Jefferson, Thomas. Papers. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1950-2004. Vols. 23-31. ISBN 0691047782 (v.26); 0691015856 (v.27); 0691047804 (v.28); 0691090432 (v.29); 0691094985 (v.30); 0691118957 (v.31)

  20. Klier, Betje Black. Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Théodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829, Including Portions of his Souvenirs atlantiques. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. ISBN 708945053

  21. Maher, Ramona. The Glory Horse: A Story of the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas in 1836. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974. ISBN 0698202945/ 0698305469

  22. Maillard, N. D. History of the Republic of Texas: From the Discovery of the Country to the Present Time; and the Cause of her Separation from the Republic of Mexico. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1842.

  23. Matovina, Timothy M. The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. ISBN 0292751850

  24. McGiffin, Lee. The Fifer of San Jacinto. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1956.

  25. Mier y Terán, Manuel de. Texas by Terán: The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on his 1828 Inspection of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. ISBN 0292781687

  26. Moore, Stephen L. Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas Vol. I 1835-1837. Republic of Texas Press, 2002. ISBN  1556229283

  27. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English languages. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1828. V.1

  28. Newell, Chester. History of the Revolution in Texas. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1838.

  29. Power, Hugh Irvin. Battleship Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. ISBN 0890965161

  30. Prints and Printmakers of Texas: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual North American Print Conference. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997.  ISBN 0876111371

  31. Rappole, John H. and Gene W. Blacklock. Birds of Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994. ISBN 0890965447

  32. Ridley, Jasper. The Freemasons: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society. New York: Arcade, 2002. ISBN 1559706015

  33. Sahagun, Bernardino de. General History of the Things of New Spain: Florentine Codex. Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research; Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, 1950-1982. Vols. 6, 13.

  34. Silverthorne, Elizabeth. Ashbel Smith of Texas: Pioneer, Patriot, Statesman, 1805-1886. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982.  ISBN 0890961271

  35. Van Wagenen, Michael. The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. ISBN 1585441848

  36. Webster, Frances Marvin Smith. The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000. ISBN 087338654X

  37. Williams, John Hoyt. Sam Houston, A Biography of the Father of Texas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. ISBN 0671746413


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