❖ Above: The Storybook House (foreground) and Charleston Home (background) are two examples of Dan Phillip’s building style. Both are located on University Avenue in Huntsville. COURTESY OF MEREDITH AUSTIN. Right: The historic downtown theater was recently restored and was site of a film premiere by Hollywood film director and native Huntsville son Richard Linklater. COURTESY OF MEREDITH AUSTIN. 5 4 ✦ H I S T O R I C W A L K E R C O U N T Y
ENDNOTES Chapter I 1 Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez, ed., Texas Almanac, 2004-2005 (Dallas: Dallas Morning News, L.P., 2004), 285; John Leffler, “<strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>,” Handbook of Texas Online (HTO). 2 Logan McNatt, et. al., Archeological Survey and History of Huntsville State Park, <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong> Texas (Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Cultural Resources Program, 2001), 13; Dee Ann Story, et.al., “Cultural History of the Native Americans,” in The Archeology and Bioarcheology of the Gulf Coastal Plain (Fayetteville: Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1990), 163-366. 3 Anastase Douay’s account may be found in Christian Le Clercq, First Establishment of the Faith in New France, Volume II, trans. John Gilmary Shea (New York: John G. Shea, 1881), 241; John L. Baldwin, “Early History of <strong>Walker</strong> Co., Texas,” (Master’s Thesis, Sam Houston State University, 1954), 1-15; W. W. Newcomb, Jr., The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961), 23, 280-291. 4 Andree F. Sjoberg, “The Bidai Indians of Southeastern Texas,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Winter, 1951), 391-400; Lawrence C. Aten, Indians of the Upper Texas Coast (New York: Academic Press, 1983), 37- 38, 47-52, 308-310; Travels in the Interior Parts of America; Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dubar (London: J.G. Barnard, 1807), 43; Jean Louis Berlandier, The Indians of Texas in 1830, ed. John C. Ewers, trans. Patricia Reading Leclercq (Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969), 107-108. 5 On Moscoso’s expedition see, William C. Foster, <strong>Historic</strong> Native Peoples of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008), 26-27. 6 A complete historiographical review of the debate over La Salle’s journey through Texas may be found in William C. Foster, ed., Johanna S. Warren, trans., The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687 (Austin: Texas State <strong>Historic</strong>al Association, 1998), 30-48. 7 Herbert Eugene Bolton, Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1915; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970), 405-431. 8 John W. Thomason, “Huntsville,” in D’Anne McAdams Crews, ed., Huntsville and <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>, Texas: A Bicentennial History (Huntsville, Texas: Sam Houston State University Press, 1976), 3-16; Harry F. Estill, “The Old Town of Huntsville,” The Quarterly of the Texas State <strong>Historic</strong>al Association 3 (1900): 265-78. 9 Estill, “The Old Town of Huntsville,” 265-78. 10 Vernon Cleveland Fitzgerald Schuder, “A History of Cincinnati,” in Huntsville and <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>, Texas, 513- 524; Gerald L. Holder, “Cincinnati, Texas,” HTO; Leffler, “<strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>.” 11 Willie Powell Costilow, “The ‘Formative’ Years of <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>,” in Huntsville and <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>, Texas, 321-329; Leffler, “<strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>,” HTO. Chapter II 12 Bureau of the Census, Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Texas, Table 11, “Agriculture, farms and implements, stock, products, home, manufacturers,” 515-517; Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Texas, “Agriculture of the United States,” 149-150. 13 James L. Hailey, “Old Carolina, TX,” HTO. 14 James L. Hailey, “Tuscaloosa, TX,” HTO. 15 Christopher Long, “Newport, TX (Trinity <strong>County</strong>),” HTO. 16 James L. Hailey, “Crabb’s Prairie, TX,” HTO. 17 James L. Hailey, “Shepherd’s Valley, TX,” HTO. 18 Gerald L. Holder, “Waverly, TX,” HTO. 19 Thomason, “Huntsville,” Huntsville and <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong>, Texas: A Bicentennial History; Donald R. <strong>Walker</strong>, A Frontier Texas Mercantile: The History of Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841-1940 (Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 1997); Thomas W. Cutrer, “Robert Goodloe Smither,” HTO. 20 Langston Goree, “Goree, Thomas Jewett Family,” in <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong> Texas; A History, ed. <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong> Genealogical Society and <strong>Walker</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Historic</strong>al Commission (Dallas: Curtis Media Corp., 1986), 397-398. 21 Estill, “The Old Town of Huntsville,” 274. 22 Dan Ferguson, “Austin College in Huntsville,” The Southwestern <strong>Historic</strong>al Quarterly, Volume 53 No. 4 (Apr., 1950): 400. 23 “Andrew Female College,” HTO. 24 Donald R. <strong>Walker</strong>, “Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville,” HTO. 25 Randolph B. Campbell, Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 211. 26 Texas Almanac, 1859 (Denton, Texas: Texas State <strong>Historic</strong>al Association, 1860), 204-207; Ralph A. Wooster, “Wealthy Texans, 1860,” The Southwestern <strong>Historic</strong>al Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Oct., 1967): 163-180; James L. Hailey, “Thomason, Joshua Allen,” HTO. E n d n o t e s ✦ 5 5
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