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Title: Soberano Congreso General de la Federacion Mexica [Memorial to the Congress of the United Mexican States]
Identifier: foth_0236
Dates: 1833-04-13
Description: Spanish version of the Memorial to the Congress of the United Mexican States, signed by David G. Burnet (president of the committee formed to write a memorial), Thomas Hastings, and William H. Wharton, president of the Convention of 1833.

Title: Sobre el Establecimiento colonial. . .
Identifier: foth_0005_multipage
Creator: Government of Mexico
Dates: 1823-03-20
Description: With the signing of this document on March 20, 1823, the government of Mexico granted Stephen F. Austin the right to settle three hundred American families in Texas. Such permission followed Mexico's passage of a general colonization law on January 4, 1823, which offered heads of families a league and a labor of land (4,605 acres) and provided for agents, called empresarios, to promote immigration.

Title: Spire Hagerty's Description of Stolen Slaves
Identifier: foth_0545_multipage
Creator: Hagerty, Spire
Dates: 1838-10
Description: Hagerty's description of his stolen slaves. "The above negros were stolen from my plantation by a creek Indian ... Jack, Jeffrey, Lucy, Sambo, and Carolina." Rebecca McIntosh Hagerty married Spire Hagerty, owner of a plantation near Marshall, Texas. After Spire's death, Mrs. Hagerty continued to acquire control of slaves and land and became one of the richest planters in antebellum Texas.

Title: State of Louisiana, City of New Orleans
Identifier: foth_0542_multipage
Dates: 1836
Description: Text of an agreement for a $200,000, 8 percent loan to the people of Texas negotiated by Stephen F. Austin, William Branch Archer, and William Wharton.

Title: Stephen F. Austin [portrait]
Identifier: foth_0636
Creator: Howard, William
Dates: 1833
Description: Ivory miniature watercolor portrait of Stephen F. Austin; This original watercolor portrait miniature of Stephen F. Austin depicts him in his hunting costume with his dog Cano. William Howard painted the portrait in Mexico City in 1833.

Title: Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," Issues a Land Title to a Texas Colonist of 1822
Identifier: foth_0643
Creator: Price, Norman
Dates: 1822
Description: In addition to the original land grant he received, Austin obtained three more contracts to settle a total of 900 additional families.

Title: Telegraph and Texas Register
Identifier: foth_0550_multipage
Dates: 1838-01-27
Description: The Telegraph and Texas Register published a letter from Texas bachelors to eastern bachelorettes, who had sent a letter to the United States Congress opposing the annexation of Texas.

Title: Telegraph and Texas Register, p. 1
Identifier: foth_0484_multipage
Dates: 1838-02-03
Description: During Sam Houston's first term as president, Texas adopted a policy of peace and friendship with the Indians. Texas newspapers kept Indian relations in front of its readers. "Since the engagement on the head waters of the Trinity, the hostile Indians have kept at a respectful distance from the frontiers. We learn from a runaway slave who was with the Indians at this skirmish, that forty of their best warriors fell wounded. This is a severe loss for them, as it amounts to more than one quarter of the effective forces of the combined tribes of Wacoes and Towaccanies."

Title: Terms of Settlement
Identifier: foth_0023_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1823-10-20
Description: Austin's letter setting out the terms by which settlers would be admitted to the colony. Among the qualifications, colonists were required to have "the most unequivocal and satisfactory evidence of unblemished character, good morals, sobriety, and industrious habits."

Title: Texan Universal Pills
Identifier: foth_0420
Creator: Gilman, James B.
Dates: 1838
Description: Houston broadside advertising a patent medicine prepared with a "particular adaption" to the climate in the Republic of Texas. Mr. Gilman urged citizens to take these purgatives for relief of the symptoms of "Bilious Fever, Congestive Fever, Yellow Fever [and] Cholera."

Title: TEXAS!!
Identifier: foth_0390
Dates: 1836-04-23
Description: Broadside printed in New Orleans on April 23, 1836. The Texas Revolution provided an impetus to further colonization by Anglo-Americans. The appeal to glory coupled with generous land offers proved irresistible to many.

Title: Texas
Identifier: foth_0091
Creator: Burr, David H., 1803-1875
Dates: 1834
Description: David H. Burr created the first large scale map of Texas extending to the Arkansas River in the Texas panhandle. As with his 1833 edition of the map, Burr shows the division of Texas lands into seventeen different grants, one of which is the De León Colony.

Title: Texas [branding cattle], Texas [branding cattle]
Identifier: e_wm_0712, e_wm_0712
Creator: McNamee, Wally, McNamee, Wally, 1932-2017
Topic: Cattle, Cattle brands
Dates: 1977, 1977
Resource: Wally McNamee photographic archive, Wally McNamee photographic archive
Description: cow branding, cow branding

Title: Texas [football], Texas [football]
Identifier: e_wm_0711, e_wm_0711
Creator: McNamee, Wally, McNamee, Wally, 1932-2017
Topic: Sports, Football
Dates: 1977, 1977
Resource: Wally McNamee photographic archive, Wally McNamee photographic archive
Description: University of Texas football game, University of Texas football game

Title: Texas Forever!
Identifier: foth_0329
Dates: 1836
Description: This is the only known copy of an inflammatory circular that demonized the Mexican army and offered substantial inducements of land to all who would come to the aid the Texan cause. The broadside contains a brief account of the Alamo siege, the outcome of which was still unknown at the time this circular was issued.

Title: Texas in 1840, or the Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic
Identifier: foth_0428_multipage
Dates: 1840
Description: A travel publication intended to entice people to Texas. The text contains a color lithograph of Austin, new capital of the Republic of Texas.

Title: The Texian Grand March for the Piano Forte
Identifier: foth_0389
Creator: Meyrick, Edwin
Dates: 1835
Description: This sheet music, "Respectfully dedicated to Gen. Houston and his brave Companions in Arms," carries an idealized rendition of Santa Anna's surrender to Houston based on the earliest news reports. Publishers in the nineteenth century often illustrated their sheet music with covers depicting political and military events and heroes of the day.

Title: To the Voters of the County of Austin
Identifier: foth_0569
Dates: 1836
Description: Moseley Baker declares his candidacy for the first Congress of the Republic of Texas. In this broadside, Baker states his support for the annexation of Texas by the United States.

Title: Villa de la Bahía en el Estado de Coahuila y Texas
Identifier: foth_0017_multipage
Creator: Músquiz, Ramón approximately 1797-
Dates: 1826-04
Description: Signed by Ramón Músquiz, who served as secretary to the political chief in San Antonio from July 1825 until August 1827.

Title: The War in Texas: a review of facts and circumstances
Identifier: foth_0554_multipage
Creator: Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Dates: 1837
Description: Benjamin Lundy claims in this pamphlet that the Texas Revolution had been a conspiracy to expand slavery.

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