JOINT MEETING OF THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-
TION AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION
The Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Asso-
ciation and the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley
Historical Association will be held in Austin, Texas, April 15, 16, 17,
and 18, 1936, upon the invitation of the University of Texas.
The Mississippi Valley Association headquarters will be located at the
Driskill Hotel. Members will find the registration table on the mezzanine
floor. According to the rules of the Association, a registration fee of
fifty cents will be charged.
The University of Texas will tender a complimentary luncheon to the
members of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association on Thursday
April 16, in the Union Building, University of Texas Campus. Admis-
sion will be by ticket, which may be secured at the registration table.
Annual Dinner, Thursday, April 16, 6:30 o'clock-Crystal Ball Room,
Driskill Hotel. Tickets, $1.00.
Joint Dinner of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association and the
Texas State Historical Association, Friday, April 17, 7:30 o'clock, Crystal
Ball Room, Driskill Hotel. Tickets, $1.00.
After the Joint Dinner of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association
and the Texas State Historical Association on Friday evening a recep-
tion will be held at the Governor's Mansion
Instead of a formal meeting for Friday morning, a trip to San Antonio
has been planned at 8:00 o'clock and members of the Association will leave Austin
promptly at 8:00 o'clock and drive to San Antonio, where local busses
will be used for a sight-seeing trip around the Mission Loop, to the
Alamo, and to the old Governor's Palace. After the sight-seeing trip, a
subscription luncheon and the business meeting will be held at the Orig-
nal Mexican Restaurant. This arrangement will allow ample time for
the members to return to Austin for the afternoon session at 4:30
Announcements concerning transportation and other details will be made
later.
Headquarters will be maintained at the Driskill Hotel. Single room
with bath, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00; double room with a double bed and a
bath, $2.50 and $3.00; double room with twin beds and a bath, $2.00
per person.
Stephen F. Austin Hotel, all rooms with private baths, Single room,
$2.00., $2.50 and $3.00; double room, $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00.
Texan Hotel, single room, $1.50 without bath; $2.00 with shower; $2.50
with tub.
The railroads are offering a regular ten-day round-trip rate of 1⅓ fare,
which amounts to about two cents per mile each way.
Dinner and business meeting of Executive Council and Members of
Texas State Historical Association. Tickets, 75 cents.
The Greater Southwest
Chairman: Ralph P. Bieber, Washington University
General Edmund P. Games and the Texan Revolution
James W. Silver, Southwestern College
A Federal Experiment in Plains Indian Relations, 1835-1845
Carl C. Rister, University of Oklahoma
Owens and Aull in the Santa Fe Trade
Lewis Atherton, Wentworth Military Academy
Luncheon
Tendered by the University of Texas in honor of the members of the
Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Presiding: Eugene C. Barker, University of Texas
Revolutionary Racketeering on the Texan Frontier
Problems in Expansion
Chairman: Kirke Mechem, Kansas State Historical Society
Louisiana and the Annexation of Texas
James E. Winston, Sophie Newcomb College
The Emigrant Aid Company in National Politics
Samuel A. Johnson, State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas
Frontier Newspapers of Kansas and Nebraska
Everett Dick, Union College
Room 14, Geology Building, University of Texas
The South and the West in the Sixties and Seventies
The South and Problems of Post-War Finance
George L. Anderson, Colorado College
The Crime of 1873
Sears F. Riepma, Western Reserve University
A Reconsideration of the Pendleton Plan
Crystal Ball Room, Driskill Hotel
Annual Dinner of the Association
Presiding: Harry Yandell Benedict, President of the University of Texas
Presidential Address: Pioneer Stage-Coach Travel
Louis Pelzer, University of Iowa, President of the
Party leaves promptly for trip to San Antonio
Sight-seeing tour of San Antonio, 10:30-12:30
Luncheon and Business Meeting at Original Mexican Restaurant,
The Trans-Mississippi West during the Civil War
Chairman: James G. Randall, University of Illinois
Disaffection in Texas during the Civil War
Robert P. Felgar, State Teachers College, Jacksonville, Alabama
The Civil War Agricultural New Deal
Earl D. Ross, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Railroads in the Indian Territory, 1860-1870
M. L. Wardell, University of Oklahoma
Recent American History
Chairman: E. Merton Coulter, Louisian State University
Ben Tillman's View of the Negro
Francis B. Simkins, State Teachers College, Farmville, Virginia
Political Control of Isthmian Transit, 1860-1885
George F. Howe, University of Cincinnati
The Income Tax and the American Mind, 1860-1900
Elmer Ellis, University of Missouri
Crystal Ball Room, Driskill Hotel
Joint Dinner of the Texas State Historical Association and the
Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Presiding: W. E. Wrather, President of the Texas State Historical
Association
The Texan Revolution
William C. Binkley, Vanderbilt University
Following this program, a reception will be held at the
Governor's Mansion, in Austin
The West in Historical Fiction
Chairman: J. Frank Dobie, University of Texas
Westward Expansion in Historical Fiction
Ernest E. Leisy, Southern Methodist University
John C. Duval's "Strictly True" Narratives of Early Texas
Rebecca W. Smith, Texas Christian University
Flash-backs to Eldorado: California in Fiction
Lucy L. Hazard, Mills College
Joint meeting of the Teachers' Section and the National Council
for the Social Studies
Revision of the Content of American History Courses for High Schools
Chairman: Hattie M. Anderson, West Texas State Teachers College
The Civil War: A Problem of Perspective
James L. Sellers, University of Nebraska
Permanency of the Influence of Spanish Culture in the United States
Alfred B. Thomas, University of Oklahoma
The Importance of the Great Plains in the Expansion to the West
Rupert N. Richardson, Hardin-Simmons University
Discussion: Jonas Viles, University of Missouri
Ralph Steen, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Walter P. Webb, University of Texas
George P. Hammond, University of New Mexico
It is hoped that members of the Texas State Historical Association,
who come to Austin in their own automobiles, will assist in taking the
out-of-State visitors to San Antonio, since transportation must depend
mostly upon private cars.
How to cite:
"Joint Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association", Volume 39, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v039/n4/contrib_DIVL4329.html
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