| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
58065 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
976.4 Tex |
| Item number |
48 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
976.4 Tex |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Texas in 1837 |
| Remainder of title |
an anonymous, contemporary narrative |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Edited by Andrew Forest Muir |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Univ of Texas Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1958 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Austin, Texas |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
232 p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Written anonymously in 1838–39 by a "Citizen of Ohio," Texas in 1837 is the earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic. Providing information nowhere else available, the still-unknown author describes a land rich in potential but at the time "a more suitable arena for those who have everything to make and nothing to lose than [for] the man of capital or family."
The author arrived at Galveston Island on March 22, 1837, before the city of Galveston was founded, and spent the next six months in the republic. His travels took him to Houston, then little more than a camp made up of brush shelters and jerry-built houses, and as far west as San Antonio. He observed and was generally unimpressed by governmental and social structures just beginning to take shape. He attended the first anniversary celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto and has left a memorable account of Texas' first Independence Day. His inquiring mind and objective, actue observations of early Texas provide us a way of returning to the past, revisiting landmarks that have vanished forever. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
Texas |
| General subdivision |
History |
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Republic |
| Chronological subdivision |
1836-1846 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
Texas |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Relator code |
Ed. |
| Personal name |
Muir, Andrew Forest |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
sw 900 - 999 |