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Post by TRK on May 6, 2007 16:27:13 GMT -5
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Post by sloanrodgers on May 6, 2007 23:48:07 GMT -5
I found a rare copy of William Fairfax Gray's Diary recently at a used bookstore, but before this stroke of luck, I found this link valuable as a contemporary and primary source on the Texas Revolution. I hope it is helpful to others as well.  www.smu.edu/swcenter/FairfaxGray/wg_cont.htm |
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Post by Allen Wiener on May 7, 2007 8:43:14 GMT -5
RR - Many thanks for posting this! I need to tear myself away to get my work done. Once you start reading this it becomes very difficult to stop. I've never actually sat and read through it before, but now see why it is relied on so heavily in Alamo/Texas research.
AW
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Post by sloanrodgers on May 7, 2007 9:05:08 GMT -5
You're certainly welcome Allen. It was especially helpful when I was debating Denise and Repo. It shows with other sources that most of the de Zavala family was moving away from San Jacinto and that the only one on the battleground was Young Lorenzo. It's also just a great account of the time period with lots of interesting characters. |
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Post by TRK on Sept 12, 2007 14:40:31 GMT -5
Here's a book that's finally available free from Google Books: John C. Duval's Early Times in Texas (Austin: 1892). This is Duval's account of his participation with Fannin's command and his escape from the Goliad Massacre. This edition also includes "The Young Explorers," a sort of semi-fictional/semi-factual narrative of a scouting expedition from San Antonio to Uvalde Canyon and other points during the Republic years. books.google.com/books?id=Wts0AAAAMAAJ&pg |
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Post by sloanrodgers on Sept 12, 2007 17:46:07 GMT -5
Duval is usually semi-fictional and semi-factual. He's a hard author to nail down, but Texas John tells great tales of Old Republic days.  |
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Post by alamonorth on Sept 27, 2007 22:22:52 GMT -5
Thank you very much. I have been looking for the Newell book for years
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Post by Rich Curilla on Sept 28, 2007 23:50:13 GMT -5
Here's a book that's finally available free from Google Books: John C. Duval's Early Times in Texas (Austin: 1892). This is Duval's account of his participation with Fannin's command and his escape from the Goliad Massacre. This edition also includes "The Young Explorers," a sort of semi-fictional/semi-factual narrative of a scouting expedition from San Antonio to Uvalde Canyon and other points during the Republic years. books.google.com/books?id=Wts0AAAAMAAJ&pgThis book was also published by Bison Books in 1986 and is, I believe, still available in at least its tenth edition. (ISBN 0-8032-6567-0) |
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Post by TRK on Sept 29, 2007 7:33:24 GMT -5
Yep, but the Bison Books edition (at least the early printing I have) lacks "The Young Explorers" part of the 1892 edition.
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