Books in the Barker Texas History Center Series series

The story of Letty, a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas.

A soldier's account of the Mier expedition.

Ella Bird Dumont's memoir is rich with details of the frontier era in Texas, when Indian depredations were still a danger for isolated settlers, where animals ranged close enough to provide dinner and a new pair of gloves, and where sheer existence depend

A noted landscape architect's trip through Texas in 1854.