Bibliography
CAMPBELL, RANDOLPH B. Sam Houston and the American Southwest (2007). Well-written brief biography of Houston.
GREGORY, JACK, AND RENNARD STRICKLAND. Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833 (1967). Detailed account of Sam Houston’s life among, and services to, the Cherokees after his departure from Tennessee.
HARDIN, STEPHEN L. Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836 (1994). Well-researched narrative history of the Texas war of independence.
HENSON, MARGARET SWETT. Lorenzo de Zavala: The Pragmatic Idealist (1991). Solid biography of a “man who was willing to take risks to achieve his republican goals.”
MATOVINA, TIMOTHY M., EDITOR. The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives (1995). Accounts written by native-born Mexicans present during the siege of the Alamo.
RAMOS, PAUL A. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonia, 1821-1861 (2008). Valuable account of relationships between Mexican-born and American-born Texans before, during, and after the Texas Revolution.
ZAVALA, LORENZO DE. Journey to the United States of North America (1980). Translation by Wallace Woolsey of Zavala’s important observations made during his travels through Jacksonian America.
CAMPBELL, RANDOLPH B. Sam Houston and the American Southwest (2007). Well-written brief biography of Houston.
GREGORY, JACK, AND RENNARD STRICKLAND. Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833 (1967). Detailed account of Sam Houston’s life among, and services to, the Cherokees after his departure from Tennessee.
HARDIN, STEPHEN L. Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836 (1994). Well-researched narrative history of the Texas war of independence.
HENSON, MARGARET SWETT. Lorenzo de Zavala: The Pragmatic Idealist (1991). Solid biography of a “man who was willing to take risks to achieve his republican goals.”
MATOVINA, TIMOTHY M., EDITOR. The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives (1995). Accounts written by native-born Mexicans present during the siege of the Alamo.
RAMOS, PAUL A. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonia, 1821-1861 (2008). Valuable account of relationships between Mexican-born and American-born Texans before, during, and after the Texas Revolution.
ZAVALA, LORENZO DE. Journey to the United States of North America (1980). Translation by Wallace Woolsey of Zavala’s important observations made during his travels through Jacksonian America.