HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Vol. XLVIII JULY, 1944 No. 1
PUBLISHED BY
THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN 12, TEXAS
THE CAPITOL (?) AT COLUMBIA
L. W. KEMP
Journal of Juan N. Almonte Samuel E. Asbury
David Gouverneur Burnet, Satirist . . . S. W. Geiser
Check List of Texas Imprints, 1854 . . . Edited by
E. W. Winkler
Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y
Terán (Continued) Ohland Morton
Letters and Documents: Dr. John Sibley and
the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1803-1814
(Continued) Julia Kathryn Garrett
The Spirit of Santa Rita George A. Hill, Jr.
A Plea for More History in Business . . . Eugene C. Barker
Texas Collection H. Bailey Carroll
Affairs of the Association
Book Reviews
Book Notes and Asknowledgments
Contributors
1897—The Oldest Learned Society in Texas—l897
Herbert Gambrell
George A. Hill, Jr.
ACTING DIRECTOR:
H. Bailey Carroll
President L. W. Kemp
Ex-President Harbert Davenport
Ex-President W. E. Wrather
Vice-President Herbert Gambrell
PRESIDENT:
L. W. Kemp
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
DIRECTOR:
Walter P. Webb
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL:
P. I. Nixon
Earl Vandale
COR. SEC. AND TREAS.:
Mrs. Coral Horton Tullís
Vice-President George A. Hill, Jr.
Vice-President Earl Vandale
Vice-President P. I. Nixon
Director Walter P. Webb
State Librarian Fannie Wilcox
Adina de Zavala (1945)
Eugene C. Barker (1945)
Frances Donecker (1946)
Fellows
Anna Powell (1946)
Members
J. Evetts Haley (1947)
R. L. Biesele (1947)
Amelia Williams (1948)
Claude Elliott (1949)
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE:
L. W. Kemp
Eugene C. Barker
Charles W. Hackett
E. W. Winkler
Rudolph L. Biesele
Walter P. Webb
J. L. Clark
H. Bailey Carroll
Herbert Gambrell
THE SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
EDITORS:
Walter Prescott Webb
H. Bailey Carroll
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Charles W. Hackett
Rudolph L. Biesele
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS:
W. A. Whatley
Llerena Friend
student editorial assistant:
Betty Brooke Eakle
The Association was organized March 2, 1897. The annual dues are three dollars. The
Quarterly is sent free to all members.
Contributions to The Quarterly and correspondence relative to historical material should
be addressed to H. Bailey Carroll, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
Other correspondence may be addressed to The Texas State Historical Association, Austin,
Texas.
The publication committee and the editors disclaim responsibility for views expressed by
contributors to The Quarterly.
Entered at the post-office, Austin, Texas, as second class mail matter.
Contents
The Capitol (?) at Columbia L. W. Kemp 3
The Private Journal of Juan Nepomuceno Almonte,
February 1-April 16, 1836 Samuel E. Asbury 10
David Gouverneur Burnet, Satirist S. W. Geiser 33
Check List of Texas Imprints, 1846-1876 Continued
Edited by E. W. Winkler 38
Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Terán Continued
Ohland Morton 51
Letters and Documents: Dr. John Sibley and the Louisiana-
Texas Frontier, 1803-1814 Continued
Julia Kathryn Garrett 67
Affairs of the Association 72
The Spirit of Santa Rita George A. Hill, Jr. 78
A Plea for More History in Business Eugene C. Barker 85
Texas Collection H. Bailey Carroll 87
BOOK Reviews: Rister, Border Command: General Phil Sheridan
in the West; Lockwood, Life in Old Tucson, 1854-1864;
Introduction and notes by Ames, and foreword by Lyman,
A Doctor Comes to California: The Diary of John S. Griffin,
Assistant Surgeon With Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847;
Bowman, The Morale of the American Revolutionary Army;
Wiley, The Plain People of the Confederacy; Holland,
Morgan and His Raiders: A Biography of the Confederate
General; Mott, Jefferson and the Press; Hewett, From
Cave Dwelling to Mount Olympus 126
Book Notes and Acknowledgments 137
Contributors 140
The constitution of the Association provides that "Members who show,
by published work, special aptitude for historical investigation may become
Fellows. Thirteen Fellows shall be elected by the Association when first
organized, and the body thus created may thereafter elect additional Fellows
on the nomination of the Executive Committee. The number of Fellows shall
never exceed fifty." The present list of Fellows is as follows:
Acheson, Mr. Sam
Asbury, Prof. S. E.
Barker, Prof. Eugene C.
Biesele, Prof. R. L.
Bolton, Prof. Herbert Eugene
Carroll, Prof. H. Bailey
Casis, Prof. Lilia M.
Castaneda, Carlos E.
Clark, Prof. J. L.
Cox, Prof. I. J.
Crane, Judge R. C.
Davenport, Mr. Harbert
Dunn, Dr. William Edward
Dobie, Prof. J. Frank
Elliott, Dr. Claude
Emmett, Mr. Chris
Gambrell, Prof. Herbert P.
Garrett, Dr. Kathryn
Geiser, Prof. S. W.
Hackett, Prof. Chas. W.
Haggard, Dr. J. Villasana
Haley, Mr. J. Evetts
Hill, Mr. George A., Jr.
Holbrook, Mrs. Abigail C.
Holden, Prof. W. C.
Kemp, Mr. L. W.
McGregor, Mr. Stuart
Miller, Prof. E. T.
Neu, Dr. C. T.
Nixon, Dr. P. I.
Potts, Dr. C. S.
Powell, Dr. Anna
Raymond, Dr. Nora Neill
Richardson, Prof. Rupert N.
Schmitz, Rev. Joseph
Schoen, Dr. Harold
Shelby, Miss Charmion
Smither, Miss Harriet
Steen, Dr. Ralph
Tucker, Mr. Philip C. 3rd
Villavaso, Mrs. Ethel Rather
Webb, Prof. W. P.
West, Miss Elizabeth H.
Williams, Dr. Amelia
Williams, Judge O. W.
Winkler, Mr. Ernest Wm.
Wrather, Mr. W. E.
Zavala, Miss Adina de
The constitution provides also that "Such benefactors of the Association
as shall pay into its treasury at any one time the sum of one hundred dollars,
or shall present to the Association an equivalent in books, MSS., or other
acceptable matter, shall be classed as Life Members."
The Life Members at present are:
Arnold, Mr. M. L.
Baker, Mr. Hines H.
Beazley, Miss Julia
Blount, Mrs. Guy
Bobbitt, Mr. R. L.
Buchanan, Mr. A. A.
Carroll, Mr. H. Bailey
Carroll, Mr. J. Speed
Cartwright, Mr. and Mrs. J. I.
Clark, Mr. J. F.
Cox, Mr. I. J.
Crane, Mr. R. C.
Davidson, Mr. W. S.
Dealey, Mr. George B.
Deussen, Mr. Alexander
Dilworth, Mr. Thomas G.
Donaldson, Mrs. Nanna Smithwick
Donoghue, Mr. David
Driscoll, Mrs. Clara
Edwards, Mrs. Lillian Owens
Fortman, Mr. Henry F.
Gilbert, Mr. Harvey Wilbarger
Gleason, Rev. Joseph M.
Graves, Mr. Ireland
Gutsch, Mr. Milton R.
Hanrick, Mr. R. A.
Harris, Mr. Beverly D.
Hefley, Mr. W. T.
Holbrook, Mrs. T. J.
Hutcheson, Judge J. C., Jr.
Hyde, Mr. James H.
Jones, Mr. John Leddy, Jr.
Jones, Mrs. John Leddy, Jr.
Jones, Mr. Roland
Kemp, Mr. L. W.
Magruder, Mrs. Hamilton
Maresh, Dr. Henry R.
Milbry, Mrs. C. H.
Moody, Col. W. L.
Moore, Mrs. John M.
Morehead, Mr. C. R.
Morris, Mr. J. S.
Parten, Mr. J. R.
Pew, Mr. John G.
Powell, Miss Anna
Randall, Dr. Edward
Scarbrough, Mr. and Mrs. Lem
Schmidt, Mr. John
Sinclair, Mr. J. L.
Staiti, Mrs. H. T.
Stone, Mr. Hugh Lamar
Streeter, Mr. Thomas
Tenney, Rev. S. M.
Thompson, Mr. Brooks
Timm, Mr. C. A.
Walker, Mr. J. A.
Webb, Mr. Mack
West, Miss Elizabeth
Willacy, Mr. John G.
Williams, Judge O. W.
Williamson, Judge J. D.
Wythe, Mr. George
Young, Mr. Eldon
PATRONS AND SUSTAINING MEMBERS
Patrons contribute to the work of the Association $500, payable over a
period of five years; Sustaining Members $250. The List of Patrons and
Sustaining Members follows:
Barker, Mr. Eugene C.
Blaffer, Mr. R. L.
Clayton, Mr. W. L.
De Golyer, Mr. E.
Denman, Mr. LeRoy
Francis, Mr. W. H.
Hager, Mr. Dilworth S.
Hill, Mr. George A., Jr.
Hutcheson, Mr. Palmer
Karcher, Mr. J. C.
Maercky, Mr. P. George
Perry, Mrs. Hally Bryan
Russ, Mr. Leon F.
Moss, Mr. H. S.
Shepherd, Mr. James L., Jr.
Smith, Mr. E. L.
Suman, Mr. John R.
Stark, Mr. H. J. L.
Waggener, Mr. Leslie
Webb, Mr. W. P.
Weiss, Mr. W. C.
Wheelock, Mr. Lloyd
Wilson, Mr. W. D.
Wrather, Mr. W. E.
Houston Oil Company
American Liberty Oil Company
THE SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Vol. XLVIII July, 1944 No. 1
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