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W.D. Richardson. The Texas Almanac for 1859 With Statistics, Historical and Biographical Sketches &c., Relating to Texas...
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W.D. Richardson. The Texas Almanac for 1859 With Statistics, Historical and Biographical Sketches &c., Relating to Texas. [Galveston]: The Galveston News, 1858.FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 224 [2] [78, ads]. Containing defamatory remarks about Col. Forbes and others who divided the spoils after the Battle of San Jacinto. Original printed blue wrappers. Housed in modern quarter morocco clamshell.
This is the third year of publication for this useful series of almanacs, published until 1873. Featured articles include Labadie's lengthy eyewitness narrative of the San Jacinto campaign, Col. Fernando Urissa's account of the Alamo (first known eyewitness account of David Crockett's death, according to Dan Kilgore, How Did Davy Die?), G. W. Kendall's "Sheep Raising in Texas," biography of Sam Houston, and "Overland Mail Route between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California -detailed Account of the Country and Everything Connected with this Great Enterprise." The anti-Houston tone in many of the eyewitness memoirs in the early Almanacs so infuriated Sam Houston that he lambasted Richardson from the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1859.
Jenkins, in Basic Texas Books, writes: "The Richardson almanacs comprise one of the finest research sources for virtually every aspect of 19th century Texas history. Particularly in the pre-war issues, there are literally dozens of memoirs, biographies, and historical essays of great value. Most of these articles were written from interviews with participants, or by the participants themselves. Much of our surviving eyewitness information on the Texas Revolution and Republic of Texas appears in the Richardson almanacs, as well as a vast amount of economic and statistical data." Raines maintains that "no collection of Texana [is] complete without Richardson's Texas Almanacs."
Condition: Wrappers are toned and stained with minor paper loss. Text is a bit toned with minor staining.
References: Howes T-138; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 172B; Raines, p. 174.
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2023 December 2 The Ted Lusher Texas History Collection, Part One Signature® Auction #6281 (go to Auction Home page)
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