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Title: The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days
Identifier: foth_0148_multipage
Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899
Dates: 1900
Description: Tennessee blacksmith Noah Smithwick first journeyed to Texas in 1827. He dictated his impressions of Texas to his daughter who later published them.

Title: Expenses from Columbia Texas to Washington U.S.
Identifier: foth_0469_multipage
Creator: Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794-1876
Dates: 1838-06-04
Box: 3n181
Description: List of expenses incurred by Antonio López de Santa Anna during his trip from Columbia, Texas, to Washington, D.C., after his capture by Sam Houston's army. The account is countersigned by Sam Houston, president of the Republic of Texas.

Title: Fall of Bejar and Surrender of General Cós
Identifier: foth_0307_multipage
Dates: 1835-12-14
Box: BC OB 1830-1835
Description: General Martín Perfecto de Cós and his 1,200 soldiers were entrenched in San Antonio. Three hundred men volunteered to go with Ben Milam into San Antonio to attack. Cós herded his soldiers into the Alamo and surrendered on December 11.

Title: Fall of the Alamo-- Death of Crockett
Identifier: foth_0326
Dates: 1836
Description: This fanciful wood engraving is thought to be the first published illustration of Crockett's death at the Alamo. Page from Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack, of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, & Sketches of Texas.

Title: Fuerte de San Antonio de Valero, llamado communmente del Alamo . . .
Identifier: foth_0328
Creator: Navarro, José Juan Sánchez
Dates: 1836
Box: 2g146
Description: Sánchez Navarro kept a private record in two ledgers detailing his observations both of the siege of Béxar in 1835 and the assault on the Alamo in 1836. In one ledger he drew this plan of the Alamo, identifying the fort's physical components and its defenses, with comments on their relative strengths.

Title: Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company
Identifier: foth_0111
Creator: Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company
Dates: 1830-10-16
Box: BC DB 1830
Description: A blank certificate issued by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which, when executed, would entitle the person named to one labor. The company's lands, shown at the bottom of the document, consisted of the grants issued to David G. Burnet, Lorenzo de Zavala, and Joseph Vehlein.

Title: General A. Somervell to Sam Houston
Identifier: foth_0513_multipage
Creator: Somervell, Alexander, 1796-1854
Dates: 1842-03-18
Box: 3n199
Description: General Alexander Somervell urges Sam Houston to order an invasion of Mexico in retaliation for the predatory raids by the Mexican Army into Texas.

Title: General Houston, Santa Anna, and Cós
Identifier: foth_0388
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857
Dates: 1836
Description: In this popular print the victorious General Houston, dressed in colorful Indian garb, vents his moral wrath on the defeated Mexican commanders. The contemporary lithograph suggests how deeply the events of the Texas Revolution resonated in the United States.

Title: General Martín Perfecto de Cós to Political Chief at Béxar
Identifier: foth_0302_multipage
Creator: Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854
Dates: 1835-10-17
Box: 2s320
Description: General Cós's letter calls upon the citizenry of Béxar to rally to the defense of San Antonio against the "rebel colonists" shortly before the Texan siege of the city.

Title: George C. Childress Ivory Painting
Identifier: foth_0642
Dates: 1836
Description: Miniature watercolor portrait on ivory. It is generally assumed that Childress wrote the Texas declaration of independence with little help from his fellow committee members. This miniature is the only known image of George Campbell Childress, chair of the Convention of 1836, out of which came the Unanimous Declaration of Independence.

Title: Hanington's Grand Moving Dioramas
Identifier: foth_0393_multipage
Creator: Hanington, William J.
Dates: 1836
Box: BC OB 1836-1839
Description: William J. Hanington produced many moving dioramas between 1832 and 1856. This broadside advertised a feature on "General Houston's Glorious Victory." (A diorama, sometimes called a moving panorama, consisted of multiple canvas paintings sewn together and attached at either end to a vertical roller. The action would unfold as the large canvas was wound from one roller to another.)

Title: Henri Castro to Louis Huth
Identifier: foth_0447_multipage
Creator: Castro, Henri, 1786-1865
Dates: 1845-03-02
Box: 3k380
Description: Castro reports that annexation is complete and that the success of Castro's colony is inevitable.

Title: Henri Castro to Louis Huth
Identifier: foth_0441_multipage
Creator: Castro, Henri, 1786-1865
Dates: 1843-11-15
Box: 3k380
Description: Writing from Paris, Henri Castro counsels his agent Louis Huth regarding matters of colonization in Texas. In 1842, Castro received a grant from the Texas government to settle on the Medina River near San Antonio.

Title: Henri Castro to Louis Huth
Identifier: foth_0444_multipage
Creator: Castro, Henri, 1786-1865
Dates: 1844-12-03
Box: 3k380
Description: After arriving in Washington, Texas, Henri Castro reports to Huth of the impending annexation events.

Title: Henry Fisher to Anson Jones
Identifier: foth_0453_multipage
Creator: Fisher, Henry F., 1805-1867
Dates: 1844-06-27
Box: 2d145
Description: Fisher reports that he has procured the necessary funds and emigrants to carry out his colonization contract - Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas.

Title: Important from Texas
Identifier: foth_0376
Dates: 1836-04-19
Box: BC DB 1836
Description: The main article of this broadside recounts the death of James Fannin at Goliad.

Title: Inauguration Ball: Third Year of Independence
Identifier: foth_0478
Dates: 1838-12-10
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Description: Invitation to the inaugural ball of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, elected president of the Republic of Texas in 1838. Lamar served as vice president in Sam Houston's first administration.

Title: Invitation to Gen. Houston's Ball
Identifier: foth_0472
Dates: 1839-10-24
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Description: An invitation to a ball in honor of General Sam Houston. Though out of office during this period, Houston remained popular. He would run again for office in 1841 and win.

Title: J Miguel Falcón to the Ayuntamiento of Béxar
Identifier: foth_0029_multipage
Creator: Falcón, J. Miguel
Dates: 1833-12-11
Box: 2s305
Description: Sr. Falcón's notification to the Ayuntamiento of San Antonio that Austin was to be arrested and returned to Mexico City. The Mexican government's refusal to grant statehood to Texas led Austin to advise the Ayuntamiento of San Antonio to take the lead in forming a provisional state government. That action was considered treason, and in this document, Sr. Falcón of the Mexican government alerts the Ayuntamiento of San Antonio to arrest Austin. Austin eventually spent more than two years in prison.