Historic Walker County

27 Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday, From Slave
to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam
Houston (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1993), 38.
28 Randolph B. Campbell, “Slavery,” HTO.
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29 Randolph Campbell, Sam Houston and the American
Southwest (New York: Longman, 2002), 179; Edward R.
Maher, Jr., “Sam Houston and Secession,” The Southwestern
Historical Quarterly 55 (April 1952): 448-458.
30 Texas Almanac, 1859, (Denton, Texas: Texas State Historical
Association, 1860), 204-207; Ralph A. Wooster, “Wealthy
Texans, 1860,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol.
71, No. 2 (Oct., 1967): 163-180.
31 Sam Houston to H.M. Watkins and others, November 20,
1860, in Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Baker, eds.,
Writings of Sam Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press,
1943), 8: 192-197.
32 Maher, “Sam Houston and Secession,” 453-455; John H.
Reagan, “A Conversation with Governor Houston,” The
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 3 (1900): 280.
33 Ernest William Winkler, ed., Journal of the Secession
Convention of Texas, 1861 (Austin: Austin Printing
Company, 1912); Reginald G. Jayne, “Martial Law in
Reconstruction Texas,” (Master’s Thesis, Sam Houston State
University, 2005), 40.
34 “Civil War” folder, WCHC Records, County Annex;
Thomas W. Cutrer, "Branch, Anthony Martin,” HTO.
35 “Civil War” folder, WCHC Records, County Annex;
“Gillaspie, James,” HTO; Brett Derbes and Stephanie P.
Niemeyer, "Elmore, Henry Marshall,” HTO.
36 “Civil War” and “James T. Hunter” folders, WCHC Records,
County Annex.
37 “Civil War” folder, WCHC Records, County Annex;
Langston Goree, “Goree, Thomas Jewett Family,” in Walker
County Texas; A History, 397-98; Langston James Goree V
and Deborah Bloys Hardin, “Goree, Thomas Jewett,” HTO.
38 Donald R. Walker, Penology for Profit (College Station: Texas
A&M University Press, 1988), 16-17; Mary E. Rainey to
Nelda Woodall, September 15, 1986, in “Civil War” folder,
WCHC Records, County Annex.
39 Prather and Monday, From Slave to Statesman, 77-126.
40 “The Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867,” The Huntsville
Item, July 5, 1956; Henri Noordberg, “The Yellow Fever
Epidemic of 1867 at Huntsville, Texas,” Yellow Fever
Vertical File, Thomason Room, Newton Gresham Library,
Sam Houston State University.
41 James Smallwood, Murder and Mayhem: The War of
Reconstruction in Texas (College Station: Texas A & M
University Press), 2003.
42 Jayne, “Martial Law In Reconstructionist Texas,” 1, 52.
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43 James L. Hailey, “New Waverly, Texas,” HTO.
44 Logan Wilson, “A Sociological Study of Huntsville, TX,”
(Master’s Thesis, University of Texas, 1927), 44-45; James
L. Hailey, “Phelps, TX,” HTO.
45 James L. Hailey, “Dodge, TX (Walker County),” HTO.
46 James L. Hailey, “Riverside, Texas (Walker County),” HTO.
47 Alan W. Garrett, “Teacher Education,” HTO.
48 Joe L. Clark and Nancy Beck Young, “Sam Houston State
University,” HTO.
49 Mrs. Davis Cox, Sam Houston Normal Institute and Historic
Huntsville Through a Camera (Huntsville, TX, 1899), 5;
Garrett, “Teacher Education,” HTO.
50 Ty Cashion, Sam Houston State University: An Institutional
Memory, 1879-2004 (Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2004), 2.
51 Ibid., 4.
52 Ibid., 8.
53 Ibid., 15.
54 Ibid., 14; “Baldwin, Joseph,” HTO.
55 Cashion, Sam Houston State University, 21.
56 Ibid., 35.
57 Ibid., 14.
58 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Huntsville (Charleston, SC: Arcadia
Pub., 2009), 117.
59 Ibid., 74-75.
60 Gary Price, “Ball, Thomas Henry [1859-1944],” HTO.
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61 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, “From Fitzhugh to Foster: Family
Stories and the Founding of the Houston Chronicle,” manuscript
in editor’s possession.
62 Judith N. McArthur, Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A
Suffragist’s Life in Politics (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005), 23; Patricia Ellen Cunningham, “Bonnet in
the Ring: Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s Campaign for
Governor of Texas in 1944” in Women and Texas History:
Selected Essays, ed. Fane Downs and Nancy Baker Jones
(Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993), 105.
63 Thomas Michael Parrish. “This Species of Slave Labor: The
Convict leave System in Texas, 1871-1914” (Master’s
Thesis, Baylor University. 1976), 1.
64 Robert Perkinson, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison
Empire (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), 134.
65 Bettie Hayman. “A Short History of Walker County, 1860-
1942” (Master’s Thesis, Sam Houston State University,
1942); Cheryl Spencer, “Henry Carr Pritchett,” Musings
from Sam Houston’s Stomping Grounds, April 2, 2007; Paul
Culp, “The Philanthropist and the Normal” Musings from
Sam Houston’s Stomping Grounds; Beatrice Craig, Semi-
Centennial Scrapbook, Thomason Room, Newton Gresham
Library, Sam Houston State University.
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