HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Vol. XLVII JANUARY, 1944 No. 3
OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
J. W. WILLIAMS
Texas and the Confederate Army's
Meat Problem Frank E. Vandiver
Esther Amanda Sherrill Cullins .... Olive Todd Walker
The Excellence of the Spanish Horse . . John J. Johnson
General Arthur Goodall Wavell and Wavell's
Colony in Texas--A Note Eugene C. Barker
Life of General Don Manuel de Mier
y Terán (Continued) Ohland Morton
Check List of Texas Imprints, 1851, 1852 Edited by
E. W. Winkler
Texas Collection H. Bailey Carroll
Letters and Documents
Book Reviews
Contributors

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CONTENTS
The National Road of the Republic of Texas - - -
- - - J. W. Williams - - 207
Texas and the Confederate Army's Meat Problem - - -
- - - Frank E. Vandiver - - 225
Esther Amanda Sherrill Cullins - - Olive Todd Walker - - 234
The Excellence of the Spanish Horse - John J. Johnson - - 250
General Arthur Goodall Wavell and Wavell's Colony in
Texas - - - Eugene C. Barker - - 253
Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Terán Continued
- - - Ohland Morton - - 256
Check List of Texas Imprints, 1846-1876 Continued - - -
- - - Edited by E. W. Winkler - - 268
Texas Collection - - - H. Bailey Carroll - - 294
Letters and Documents: Dr. John Sibley and the Louisiana-
Texas Frontier, 1803-1814 - - - Continued
- - - Julia Kathryn Garrett - - 319
A Letter from Old Goliad - Edited by Marian Yaeger - - 325
A Mexican War Letter - - Edited by Marjorie Clark - - 326
BOOK Reviews: Wallace, Charles DeMorse: Pioneer Editor and
Statesman; Copeland, Kendall of the Picayune; Schreiber,
When the Bishop Blesses; Bettersworth, Confederate Mis-
sissippi. The People and Policies of a Cotton State in War-
time; Shaw, William Preston Johnston: A Transitional Fig-
ure of the Confederacy - - - 328
Contributors - - - 337
THE SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Vol. XLVII January, 1944 No. 3
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