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Title: Memorial to the General Congress of the United Mexican States [english]
Identifier: foth_0225_multipage
Dates: 1833-04-13
Description: The Convention of 1833 met at San Felipe de Austin in April 1833. Among other things, the convention petitioned for the separation of Coahuila and Texas into two separate states, and prepared a constitution for the state of Texas. The convention appointed a committee to write a memorial to the Mexican government outlining the virtues of the new state organization and constitution. Stephen F. Austin traveled to Mexico City to present the memorial to the Mexican government.

Title: Milam's Colony
Identifier: foth_0112
Creator: Williamson, Robert M.
Dates: 1834
Description: Robert M. Williamson, agent of Benjamin R. Milam, issued this announcement encouraging those with claims to land within Milam's grant to seek their title from the newly assigned commissioner.

Title: Mirabeau B. Lamar
Identifier: foth_0479
Description: Mirabeau Lamar had grand visions for Texas, including public lands earmarked for public education. A congressional act of 1839 set aside lands for public schools and universities.

Title: New Map of Texas with Contiguous American and Mexican States
Identifier: foth_0647
Creator: Young, J.H. (James Hamilton)
Dates: 1837
Description: Map by cartographer J. H. Young delineates land grants and includes an explanatory inset with empresarios and their grants.

Title: Noah Smithwick's observations regarding Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0021
Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899
Description: Noah Smithwick, author of The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days, noted these observations of Stephen F. Austin. Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 and spent time in Austin's colony before being banished from it in 1830 due to Smithwick's aiding the escape of a friend accused of killing an alcalde.

Title: O Kentucky: The Hunters of Kentucky!
Identifier: foth_0327
Dates: 1836
Description: This cover illustration is from one of a series of popular almanacs featuring David Crockett, which continued to promote the frontier exploits of the adventurer well after his death at the Alamo. In it Crockett accounts for his going to Texas as follows: "At the last canvass for a Member of Congress, in our district, I told my constituents, if they did not re-elect me, they might go to hell and I'd go to Texas. I was beaten . . . And I am now about to cut out to that country to help give the Mexicans a licking." Page from Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack, of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, & Sketches of Texas.

Title: Partial view of derrick by small pool with trees, Partial view of derrick by small pool with trees
Identifier: e_enr_298
Contributor: Studtman Photo Service, 19th & Lavaca, Austin
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1920-1930
Resource: Oral history of the Texas oil industry collection

Title: [Personal: Personal and Family History: Articles: Lt. Commander David S. McAngus, Robter E. Greenwood, Ensign Robert H. Stokes, Lt. Edward E. Phillips
Identifier: e_math_00447
Creator: United press international
Dates: 1964
Resource: Robert E. Greenwood papers
Description: Left to right: Lt. Commander David S. McAngus, Robter E. Greenwood, Ensign Robert H. Stokes, Lt. Edward E. Phillips

Title: Peter Gallagher's Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition
Identifier: foth_0492_multipage
Creator: Gallagher, Peter
Dates: 1841
Description: Despite failing to get Congressional approval, President Mirabeau Lamar commissioned an expedition to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to extend commerce by way of a western trade route. In June 1841, a volunteer military force accompanied the merchants on the expedition, but all were met with resistance in New Mexico. Forced to march to Mexico City and imprisoned there, the prisoners gained release in April 1842.

Title: Petitions to the Mexican Government
Identifier: foth_0092_multipage
Creator: Edwards, Haden, 1771-1849
Dates: 1832
Description: These Mexican documents reveal Haden Edward's efforts, along with Daniel Stuart, Simon Bourne, and Robert Leftwich's efforts, to secure permission for American settlement in Texas.

Title: Pilotage Regulations, Custom House
Identifier: foth_0425
Dates: 1841-09-18
Description: This broadside announces the Texas Congress's actions to make the port collectors responsible for the control of pilots in each port.

Title: Portrait of David Crockett
Identifier: foth_0324
Description: Former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, David Crockett traveled to Texas in 1835 and jumped into the Texas Revolution with his participation at the Battle of the Alamo. The question of how Crockett died at the Alamo is a controversial one. The long-held belief is that Crockett died in the midst of battle. However, some scholars now believe that Mexican soldiers captured Crockett and that Santa Anna ordered Crockett to be executed.

Title: Portrait of James Bowie
Identifier: foth_0323
Creator: Hill, Samuel B., 1840-1917
Description: A native of Kentucky, James Bowie fought in the Battle of the Alamo. The volunteer army elected Bowie as their commander. Bowie's active participation ended when he fell ill. At the end of the battle, Bowie was found with gunshots to the head.

Title: Portrait of Sam Houston
Identifier: foth_0262
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
Dates: 1858
Description: Texan military commander Sam Houston was former governor of Tennessee and a protégé of Andrew Jackson. [after a daguerreotype by B. P. Paige, (n.d.)].

Title: The Present Political Relations of the United States and the Republic of Texas. Natchez Daily Courier
Identifier: foth_0264
Dates: 1836-09-27
Description: A pro-Texas article printed on September 27, 1836, in the Natchez Daily Courier.

Title: President's address [draft]
Identifier: foth_0455_multipage
Creator: Burnet, David G. (David Gouverneur), 1788-1870
Dates: 1836-03
Description: Delivered by Burnet to the Constitutional Convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos, March 17, 1836. Burnet served in the ad interim government until elections could be held in the fall of 1836. In 1841 Burnet lost to Sam Houston in a presidential election.

Title: Proclamation
Identifier: foth_0179_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1824-05-01
Description: Austin's announcement to the members of his colony that the Mexican Congress had adopted a Federal Republican system of government and that the "hitherto enslaved Spanish Provinces are now free and independent States."

Title: A proclamation by the President of the Republic of Texas
Identifier: foth_0579
Creator: Jones, Anson, 1798-1858
Dates: 1845-06-06
Description: Mexico agreed to recognize Texas so long as Texas did not become part of the United States. President Anson Jones issued this proclamation ending hostilities with Mexico.