Recollections of Early Texas: Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins

edited by John Holmes Jenkins III

University of Texas Press, 1958
Paper: 978-0-292-77037-9 | eISBN: 978-0-292-74937-5
Library of Congress Classification F390.J4 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.4040924

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

“[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword

A firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas.

REVIEWS

This is the firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it for others. For here is history in the making—Indian raids and Mexican forays were daily menaces and brought massacres, capture, and torture to these first settlers. These reminiscences . . . are invaluable for their recordings of early frontier times and for their presentation of such historic happenings as the Mier and Santa Fe expeditions. The original flavor of the writing has been beautifully retained and the entire account is well documented.

— Library Journal

John Holmes Jenkins . . . has done a splendid job of editing a splendid piece of Americana.

— New Yorker

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Austin's Little Colony
II. Valuable Additions Arrive
III. Mexican Invasion
IV. Brushy Creek and Plum Creek
V. Comanches, Caddoes, and Cherokees
VI. More Mexican Trouble
VII. The Mier Expedition
VIII. The Texan Santa Fe Expedition
IX. People of Note.
X. Recollections at Random
XI. In All Fairness
XII. Hunting and Social Life
XIII. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
XIV. In Conclusion
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Index

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