Price List of Lots at Loyola, Texas Martin County. by Soash Development Co - 1909-1912

[Texas] Colquitt, Oscar Branch. Gov. O.B. Colquitt tells of Early Life and of his Newspaper and Political Experiences. [Pittsburg, Texas?]: [No publication information.] 1934. Tan printed wraps. 18.5 cm. Illustrated. 29 pp. Near fine.
OCLC shows 12 holdings (U. MO.; Duke; Baylor; Dallas Pub. Lib.; DRT Lib.; Houston Pub. Lib.; SMU; SFA U.; TAMU-SA; Texas State Lib.; Texas Tech.; & UT-Austin) Revised and reprinted from the Pittsburg gazette, February 13, 1934. The Colquitt family moved to Kaufman County, Texas in 1886. Gives some family history and his rise to Governor. Before politics he founded the newspaper the Pittsburg [Texas] Gazette.

Wheeler, Homer W. Buffalo Days, Forty Years in the Old West: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter and Army Officer, by Wheeler Homer, with introduction by Major General James G. Harbord. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. 1925. Second edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated. frontis, photos, 369 pp. Book and jacket are very good. Minor chipping at top of jacket spine. Howes W322, Rader 3627, Six Guns 2375, Herd 2499. Wheeler served also as a post trader and Indian agent and was in command of Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. Excellent on Indians and Indian government scouts. A chapter on Wild Bill Hickok and one entitled "Western Badmen."

[Mexican American War] [Mexico] Ruano. R.; P Velez; José María Lara. Esposición del Secretario del Despacho de Hacienda, Leida en Consejo de Ministros con Asistencia de los Gobernadores de los Estados, en 17 de Agosto de 1851. México: Impr. de J.M. Lara. 1851. Brown leather with gilt tooling. 24 cm. 14, 34 pp. [7 folding tables] [4] pp. Covers show some wear, a few spots and stains; overall very good.
OCLC shows five holdings (Harvard; Yale; Univ. Ill.; Biblio. Natl. Mexico; & Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) Speech and documents relating to the meeting in this capital of the governors of the states, summoned to provide for the demands of the federal treasury in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Signed on p. 14: Piña y Cuevas. Second section has title: Documentos. "The invasion of the Republic in 1847 did not produce only the misfortune that is the dismemberment of its territory, but the loss of its income, and great embarrassments to repair it. Maritime customs suffered because of the… Read More

[Railroads] International & Great Northern Railroad. Greater Texas and the Coast Country. Houston-Galveston District, the Winter Garden. [Galveston, Texas?]: Galveston Commercial Association. [Circa 1910). Printed wraps. 23 cm. Fourth edition. Illustrated. Maps. 24 pp. Covers separated at spine, else very good.
OCLC shows one holding (TAMU). UT-Arlington also has a copy of the Third edition. Text in double columns. "Everything good for sons of men is found in the land of the I. & G.N."--Cover. "Iron mountain route"--Cover and bottom of every other page. "The way to Texas" -- Cover and bottom of every other page. On back cover: Galveston Commercial Association, J. E. Kauffman, Secretary, Galveston, Texas. Originally meant to be folded to 23 x 11 cm. and mailed. Many great photographs.

[Texas] [Houston] Houston and Galveston. Portland, Maine: L.H. Nelson Company; S.H. Kress & Co. 1907. Green wraps with gold lettering. 20 x 25 cm. Illustrated. [32] pp. Front cover has edge chip and corner chips, split at spine; rear cover has tear and chips. First page has a few stains. Images are very good.
OCLC shows three holdings (UT-Austin; UT-Arlington; & Columbia). SMU also has a copy. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of street views and buildings in Galveston and Houston, Texas being rebuilt after the hurricane and flood of 1900. The booklet includes Houston images of Main Street south from Franklin Street; City Hall and Market House; Grand Central Passenger Station; Houston High School; Thalian Club & Rice Hotel; Residence of H. B. Chew & Heights Blvd.; St. Agnes Academy & Horne Sanitarium in Heights; First Presbyterian Church and Annunciation (Catholic) church.

[Montana][Railroad] South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. "The New Constellation" "Stars of the First Magnitude: Added to the Galaxy of States. N.p.: St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company. [1890?] Pictorial wraps. Map. 8.5 x 11 in. Illustrated. 4 pp. Full page map St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway and Connections is by Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works, Buffalo, New York. Has been folded. Agent rubber stamp on rear cover. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. The St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway was the creation of James J. Hill. Hill and three other investors purchased the nearly bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1878, renaming it the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the following year. In 1890 all properties and operations were leased to the Great Northern Railway Company and the Great Northern purchased all of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company's investments, including stocks, bonds, and other miscellaneous… Read More

[Billy the Kid] Cowboy Life. Portland, Maine: Chisholm Bros. [1880s] Maroon embossed boards with gilt title and vignette of cowboy on horseback. 5 x 6 in. Printed on one side of a single strip folded accordion style and attached by its leading edge to upper cover. 22 photogravure images on 12 pages. Edge wear, else unusually bright gilt and near fine interior.
Dykes,
Billy the Kid 28: "Rare." Not in Adams, Herd. Images include "The Mess Wagon," "Branding on the Prairie," "Roping a Pony from the Herd," "Throwing a Steer," "Skinning a Beef," "Branding a Maverick," and more. Possibly including an image of Billy the Kid. According to Dykes the cowboy image, which also appeared in Chittenden's Ranch Verses, strongly resembles the only known image of Billy the Kid.

Mexico] Willis S. Hunt.
Plan of Haciendas Los Becos & Carrízal. District of Culican, Sinolosa Mexico. [Nogales, Arizona?]: Willis S. Hunt. [Circa 1920s] One sheet 22 x 38 cm. Maps. Folded. Edge wear and splits at folds. Fair.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item or this development. Willis S. Hunt appears in the Nogales papers from 1919 to the 1920s as a Culiacan, Mexico resident and land agent. An ambitious attempt to market 247 acre blocks to Americans. Map shows the Southern Pacific Railway line. The map on the verso shows larger area around the proposed development.

[Railroad] Map of the Erie Railway. Extending from New York to Newburgh ... with its principal connections. [New York]: National Railway Publication Company. 1874. Map ; 24 x 61 cm, on sheet 37 x 63 cm, folded to 19 x 9 cm. Panel title: West & North-west, South & South-west via the Erie Railway ... Above the map: "The Best Equipped and Most Comfortable Route to the WEST!!" Fold splits, edge wear. Good.
OCLC show one holding (SMU). Shows most of the United States except south Texas and Florida. Relief shown by hachures. Three illustrations below map. Timetables for May 1874 and "First class rates of fare from New York via Erie Railway" on verso. Mentioned destinations include Denison, Texas and San Francisco.

[Railroad][Mexico] Plumb, Eduardo Lee.
Ferrocarril Internacional.
Lithographed map. 21 x 27 cm. With promotional text in Spanish. Dated at end: México, abril de 1872. Includes map of portions of the United States and Mexico showing railroads from New York to Texas and proposed railroad route from Texas through Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico City.
OCLC shows 5 holdings (Newberry; Harvard; Mus. NM; SMU & UT-Arlington). A project to extend a railroad from Texas to Mexico. This is a promotional urging Mexico to approve the route which was to connect the Texas lines with Mexico, then to Presidio and thence to either the Pacific or to the Gulf of Mexico.