Texas History Blog: References

  • Austin Folio #76, 1902 US Geological Survey (actual date of survey was 1898-1896)

  • David Crosby, A Rock from the Sky, True West, October 1998

  • Betty Dooley Awbrey and Claude Dooley, Why Stop?, Gulf Publishing, 4th Edition, 1999

  • Lindsay Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas, Univeristy of OK Press, 1986

  • Julie Breaux, Bits & pieces reveal history near Pecos River crossing, Austin American Stateman, 10-15-1998

  • Donaly E. Brice, The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas Republic, Eakin Press, 1987

  • J. Frank Dobie, Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest, University of Texas Press, 1978

  • Mary Ann Noona Guerra, The History of San Antonio's Market Square, The Alamo Press, 1988

  • Jack Jackson & William Foster, Imaginary Kingdom: Texas as Seen by the Rivera and Rubi Military Expeditions 1727 and 1767, Texas State Historical Association, 1995 

  • John Miller Morris, El Llano Estacado, Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico 1536-1860, Texas State Historical Assoc, 1997

  • THC (Texas Historical Commission), Texas Historical Roadside Markers, http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/ .. these are in available in book for in Why Stop?

  • The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/index.html

  • Robert S. Weddle, The San Saba Mission: Spanish Pivot in Texas, University of Texas Press, 1964

  • J.W. Williams, Old Texas Trails, Eakin Press, 1979 (one of my favorites!)

  • Mary Starr Barkley, History of Travis County and Austin, 1839-1899 (Waco: Texian Press, 1963) .. this is a part of Davis Brothers Publishing Company, Waco, Texas .. have spoken with them and unfortunately this book is no longer in press.

  • J.W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 1888

  • Ernest Langford, Briggs: Brief Annals of the Times and People: From Gum Springs to 1960, College Station, Texas (good luck finding a copy of this book however).

  • A Texas Legacy, The Old San Antonio Road and Caminos Reales, Tricentennial History, 1691-1991, Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Austin, Texas, 1991

  • Gelo and Pate, Texas Indian Trails.

  • Patrick Dearen, Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier