Research Catalog

Title

The evolution of a state, or, Recollections of old Texas days / Noah Smithwick ; compiled by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Alwyn Barr.

Author

Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899.

Publication

Austin, Tex. : W. Thomas Taylor, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Donaldson, Nanna Smithwick.
• Barr, Alwyn.

Description

xvi, 293 p. : port.; 27 cm.

Summary

"In 1827 I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise." Noah Smithwick would remain in Texas for the next thirty-four years of his life. His memoir of that time, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, is a fascinating account of the early history of the Lone Star State when life was extremely tough for these early pioneers. He records in brilliant detail his trials and tribulations, his conflicts with fellow pioneers, Mexicans and Native Americans, and how he carved out a life for himself in this frontier territory. From the Fall of the Alamo to the Battle of Brushy Creek, Smithwick chronicles some of the most iconic moments in early Texan history. This book, however, is not just a first-person account of life in the first-half of the nineteenth century, as Smithwick provides thorough details of the changes that he saw going on around him and how Texas was developing to become the state we know today.

Series Statement

The library of Texas ; no. 3

Uniform Title

The library of Texas ; no. 3.

Subject

• Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899
• To 1846
• Frontier and pioneer life > Texas
• Pioneers > Texas > Biography
• Texas > History > To 1846
• Texas > Biography

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

32459001

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library