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Aberdeen, Lord, Texas y California, 245.

Adair, Bur son, biography, 245.

Affairs of the Association, election of officers and members, 77.

Agriculture of Indians in Texas, 266.

Alley, Rowson, surveyor, 91.

Andrade, General, evacuation of San Antonio in 1836, 246.

Andrews, Robert, surveyor, 91.

Apaches, raids on El Paso, 131.

Arizpe, Miguel Ramos, 245.

Arneson, Edwin P., The Early Art of Terrestrial Measurement and Its Prac tice in Texas, 79-97. Asbury, Samuel E., paper on Texas Historians, 77.

Astrolabe, description of, 80.

Austin, Stephen F., life of, reviewed, 315.

Austin, Texas, in 1849, 40.

Babb, Theodore A., In the Bosom of the Comanches, 246.

Ball, Thomas, defends Indians, 191.

Barker, Eugene C, book review, 160; Life of Stephen F. Austin, reviewed, 315.

Barnard, Charles E., 108.

Barrow, Alexander, opposition to an nexation of Texas, 176.

Bartlett, John R., explorations, 4, 5.

Batres, José, medical staff of Terán's boundary commission, 249; visits Tonkawa camp, 269.

Batts, R. L., 77.

Baylor, J. R., Indian agent, 34, 106, 113, 115.

Baylor University, history, 247.

Belcher, Sir Edward, Texas colony, 58, 60.

Bell, Governor P. H., criticises Federal army on Texas frontier, 20.

Berlandier, Luis, scientist with Terán's boundary commission, 249; obtains specimens of petrified trees, 252; visits Tonkawa camp, 269.

Bexar, see San Antonio. Biggers, Don H., German Pioneers in Texas, 245.

Big Tree, Comanche chief, 189; trial, 191 ; conditional pardon, 196.

Big Water, Waco chief, killed, 30.

Binkley, William C, book by, reviewed, 159.

Black, J. S., Attorney General of the United States, 10.

Black, Lafayette, 41, 42, 134.

Blackwell, Captain Charles, 26.

Blair, James, California emigrant, 212.

Blair, William, California emigrant, 212.

Boggess, Giles S., 28.

Bolton, Herbert E., book by, reviewed,, 157.

Book Keviews. See Table of Contents.. Brazos Agency, the, 100.

Brooke, General George M., disapproves of rangers, 24; service in Texas, 25.

Brown, A. N., Postmaster General, 1 ; awards overland mail contract, 2; political influence affecting choice of route, 3.

Brown, Henry S., ranger service, 24.

Brown, John Henry, 118.

Brown County, horse racing in, 247.

Bryan, Guy M., on negro education, 66, 237; on Federal aid to education, 75; on President Cleveland, 152; on rail road regulation, 155; on reasons for the Solid' WC= ' WC= 237; at Monterey,. 301 ; reviews Hayes's reconstruction, policy, 302; on the Hayes-Tilden con test, 304; on improvement of Brazo» River, 308, 311; elected to Legisla ture, 309; urges Hayes to help edu cate the President on the negro ques tion, 309, 311.

Bryan-Hayes Correspondence, The, 66 76, 151-156, 232-236, 301-314. Buffalo Hump, Comanche chief, 33.

Burleson, Edward, ranger service, 24, 30.

Butterfield, D. A., Indian trader, 183, 185.

Butterfield, John, overland mail con tractor, 1 ; terms of contract, 2 ; out lay, 11.

Caballería of land, 86.

Caldwell, C. M., 77.

California, government road to, 5; Cox's Diary from Texas to, 36; emi grant party described, 39; Constitu tion of, 208.

Callahan, James H., ranger service, 24, 29, 32.

Callahan's Raid, 247.

Castañeda, Carlos E., translation of Diary of José María Sánchez on trip to Texas, 1828-1829, 249-288.

Castro, Cuelgas de, Lipan Chief, 251.

Catlin, George, with Texas Indians, 56; influences English Colony in Texas, 57.

Cattle Industry in Oklahoma, 246.

Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company, 17.

Cherokee Indians, 286.

Chevallie, H. Mike, ranger service, 24, 131.

Chovell, Rafael, mineralogist with Terán's boundary commission, 249; obtains specimens of petrified trees, 252; visits Tonka wa camp, 269.

Chriesman, Horatio, contracts for sur veying in Austin's Colony, 91, 94.

Christian, A. X., book review, 159.

Christian, W. S., 203.

Chronometer, influence on surveying, 87.

Church, Samuel, 102.

Clapp, J. W., 173.

Clark, J. L., 77.

Cluster Springs, 136.

Coahuiltecan language, 290.

Coke, Richard, 118.

Coleman, Captain R. M., commanding Texas Rangers, 23.

Comanche Indians, in 1828, 261-265; legend of silver mines, 265; Comanche description of the Compass, 94; Co manche Reserve, 104; Comanche raid, 187.

Gomanohes, in the Bosom of, 245.

Compass, the Comanche's description of, 94.

Confederacy, Conscription and Conflict in the, 240.

Connor, Captain Daniel, 27.

Cooke's Springs, 135.

Coombes, T. E., teacher on Brazos Agency, 103.

Coons, Mr., a Santa Fé trader at El Paso, 132.

Cordova, Jacob de, 52.

Coutts, Lt. Cave J., sketch, 203, 206.

Cox, C. C, Diary of, from Texas to California, 36-50, 128-146, 201-223; biographical sketch, 36, 42; saved a life, 221.

Crane, R. C, 245.

Creek Settlement, the, 111; progress of the Creeks, 112.

Cross-staff, description of, 80.

Dale, Edward Everett, Ranch Cattle In dustry in Oklahoma, 246.

Davenport, Harbert, book review, 315.

Davis, E. J., pardons Indian murderers, 196.

Davis, H. Clay, 27.

Davis, Isaac N., opposition to annexa tion, 178.

Dienst, Dr. Alex., 77.

Eagle Heart, Comanche chief, 189.

Early, Thomas, California emigrant, 212.

El Paso, Texas, in 1849, 130.

Engelhardt, Father Zephyrin, El Ylhis tre Señor Xamuscado, 296-299. Erath, George 8., 61, 118.

Estado of land, defined, 86.

Expansionist Movement in Texas, the, 159.

Evans, Billy, 131.

Fanega of land, defined, 86.

Fargo, Gr., mail contractor, 2.

Farwell, J. W., editor, 10, 12.

Fauntleroy, Mrs. Mary, 59.

Fitzhugh, William, 28.

Ford, John S., ranger captain, 24, 30, 33.

Fort Griffin, 245.

Flippen, Percy Scott, book review, 157.

Frazier, Mrs. Emily, 51.

Frazier, Frank, 51.

Frazier, J. C, account of City of Kent, 51 j surveyor, 53 ; recollections, 32.

Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1849, 41.

Frio River, in 1828, 254.

Fuller, R. W., California emigrant, 45, 212.

García, Bartholomé, first text-book used in Texas, 299.

Garland, Peter, attacks Indians, 116.

Georgia, Arredondo's Historical Proof of Spain's Title to, 157.

German Pioneers in Texas, by Don H. Bigger s, 245.

Gibson, F. M., 115.

Gillette, Colonel James S., 27.

Gonzales, Texas, laid off, 93; in 1828, 267.

Graham, Major Lawrence P., march to California, 203.

Great Western, the, noted woman, 219.

Gregg, Josiah, method of determining latitude, 90.

Green, Tom, ranger service, 24.

Griffin, Fort, article by C. C. Rister, 245.

Griffith, Mary Matlock, book by, re viewed, 160.

Groce, Jared E., 273 ; his three dogs (Ferdinand VII, Napoleon, and Bolivar), 274.

Guion, John, 178.

Grurley, E. J., defends Indians, 115.

Gwin, William M., estimate of S. S. Prentiss, 179.

Hacienda of land, defined, 86.

Hackett, Charles W., book review, 320.

Hannah, Captain, 131.

Harris, Lewis Birdsall, 36, 37, 42, 132, 134; letter, 215, 220.

Harwood, T. F., elected President of Texas State Historical Association, 77.

Hayes, R. 8., views on party govern ment, 71; on Cleveland, 73, 151, 233; on Federal aid for public education, 74, 151; financial losses, 151, 232; on responsibilities of an ex-President, 154; on labor problems, 232; his re construction policy reviewed by Bryan, 302; Hayes's response, 302; urged by Bryan to help educate Presi dent Harrison on the negro question, 309, 311; note on Texas Confederate Home, 310; appreciation of his wife, 312.

Hayes, Lucy Webb, death of, 312; de scribed by her husband, 313.

Haynie, Captain, leader of California emigrants from Austin, 212.

Hays, Jack, ranger captain, 24; sur veyor, 96.

Henley, Thomas, superintendent of Cal ifornia Indian reservations, 98.

Henry, William, 28.

Highsmith, Sam, ranger service, 24; at tack on the Wichitas, 25; battle with Wacos, 30.

Hill, Captain Ben T., 26.

Hill, George, Indian agent, 100, 103.

Holden, W. D., local history, 245.

Holt, J., Postmaster General, 10.

Holt, R. D., McCulloch County, 247.

Houston, A. J., 77.

Howard, George, Indian agent, 100, 104.

Huebra of land, defined, 86.

Humboldt, Alexander yon, 88.

Hunt, Memucan, ranger service, 24.

Huizar, Pedro, 85.

Indian Policy in Texas, the Federal, 19-35, 98-127: employment of Federal troops, 19; Indians in Federal serv ice, 33; reservation system, 98; loca- tion of reservations, 99; cost of main taining, 110; failure of, 113; removal from Texas, 119; in Texas after the removal, 123.

Indian troubles in West Texas, by R. C. Crane, 245.

Indians, amazement at art of the sur veyor, 94; trade with, 183, 184; depredations of, 186; immigrant tribes in Texas, 261; dance of, de scribed, 279, 293; tribal habits of, 293; first text-book for in Texas, 289 295; the Jacksboro affair, 181.

Ingram, Seth, surveyor, 91.

Iron Jacket, Comanche chief, 33.

Jacksboro, Indian Affairs of 1871, 181.

James, Thomas, Wells-Fargo Company, 11.

Johnson, Isaac W., 26.

Johnson, M. T., ranger service, 35.

Johnston, A. S., 114.

Katemsie, Comanche chief, 105, 107.

Kendrick, B. 8., agrarian discontent in the South, 246.

Kent, the City of, by Dorothy Waties Renick, 51-65; founded, 54; failure, 64.

Kerr, James, surveyor, 92.

Kickapoo Indians, 280.

Kicking Bird, Kiowa Chief, 182.

Kimball, Richard 8., 61.

King, Captain Amon 8., identification of, 147-150; death at Refugio, 148.

King, W. H., characterization of Texas rangers, 24.

Kino, Busebio, explorations of, 83.

Koch, Lena Clara, The Federal Indian Policy in Texas, 1845-1860, 19-35, 98 127; employment of Federal troops, 19; Indians with the Federal troops, 33; reservation system, 98; appro priation of land, 98 ; cost of main taining, 110; failure, 111.

Labor of land defined, 86.

Lagrange, Texas, in 1849, 39; emigrant company from, 213.

Lanham, S. W. T., prosecutes Indians, 191.

Land measure, definition of Spanish terms, 86.

Laredo, described, in 1828, 250.

League of land defined, 86.

Leake, Joseph S., opposition to annexa tion of Texas, 167.

Leeper, Col. M., 105, 106, 107.

Leon, Alonzo de, names Texas rivers, 83; method of determining longitude and latitude, 84.

Lewis, G. X., 27.

Lipan Indians, characteristics of in 1828, 252.

Lockett, - — ■ -, California emigrant, death from hydrophobia, 136.

Lockhart, Byrd, surveyor, 92, 93.

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 243.

Looscan, Mrs. A. 8., 77.

López, Francisco, 224.

Love, William, California emigrant, 212.

Lucas, W. P., 178.

McAlister, James, 36, 134.

McClennan, Neil, surveyor, 61.

McCulloch, Ben, ranger service, 24.

McCulloch, Henry E., condemns loot ing of Overland Company's property, 18; ranger service, 24, 26, 27, 31.

McCulloch County, history of, by R. D. Holt, 247.

McKenzie, Alistair, 58.

McKenzie, Charles Finch, leads English colony to Texas, 57.

MacKenzie, General Renald S., witness against Indians, 192.

McNeaFs Company, California emi grants, 214.

Marcy, Randolph 8., western explora tions, 4, 5; surveys Indian reserva tion, 99.

Marlin, Captain William, 34.

Martin, Mabelle Eppard, edits Diary of C. C. Cox, 36-50, 128-146, 201-223. Martin, Tom P., 77.

Mayes, Daniel, 178.

Mecham, J. Lloyd, Supplementary Docu ments relating to the Chamusoado- Rodriguez Expedition, 224-231; note by, 293, 299.

Medina River, in 1828, 256.

Mexia, Texas, early history, 247.

Middleton, John W., pamphlet on Regu lators and Moderators in Shelby County, 246.

Missions of Texas, secularization of, 85.

Mitote, a forbidden Indian dance, 293.

Montgomery, Texas, sketch of, 247.

Moon, W. H., 42, 132.

Moore, Albert Burton, book by, reviewed, 240.

Mullins, Isaac, 114.

Murehison, John, captain of emigrant company, 39, 43, 132, 134, 139; death, 140; letter, 212.

Murray, Jonathan, farmer on Brazos Agency, 101, 102.

Nacogdoehes, in 1828, 282.

Neighbors, R. S., 44; surveys Indian reservation, 99; report, 108, 118, 44.

Nelson, Allison, 116, 118.

Newcomb, James P., 247.

Newspaper accessions to University of Texas Library, 247.

Newton, Captain W. J., at Fort Chad bourne, 21.

Nueces River, in 1828, 253.

Overland Mail, Some Details of the Southern, 1-18; contract awarded, 2; the route, 3; detailed route through Texas, 4; scarcity of water in Texas, 5; passengers, 6; details of mail serv ice, 9; hardships, 12; Indian depreda tions, 14; passenger receipts, 15; ef fect on the country, 16 ; affected by the Pony Express, 17; ended by the Civil War, 17; property seized by in dividuals in Texas, 18.

Pacific Railroad survey, 4.

Parker County, on Indian affairs, 117.

Peña y Reyes, Antonio de la, Lord Aberdeen, Texas y California, 245.

Phillips, John W., 102.

Pidcocke, Rev. Richard Burton, 59, 64.

Pike, Albert, letter of mentioned, 153, 154.

Pike, Zebulon M., map making, 89.

Polk County, Indian reservation in, 111.

Pony Express, 17.

Pope, Captain John, discovers water on the plains, 13.

Prentiss, Sargeant S., pro-Clay in spite of annexation of Texas, 179.

Prado, Joseph Guadalupe, 290.

Ramsdell, Chas. W., 77; book reviewed by, 240, 243.

Rangers and Frontier Protection, 19; the ranger service, 23; origin and character of the rangers, 23; nature of work, 24; organization of com panies, 25; some engagements of rangers, 30; Indians in ranger serv ice, 34.

Rath, Charles, Indian trader, 185.

Refugio, battle of, 148.

Renick, Dorothy Waties, The City of Kent, 51-65. Richardson, Rev. Chauncey, 39; letter to, 212.

Richardson, Rupert N., Some Details of the Southern Overland Mail, 1-18. Rister, C. C, Significance of the Jacks horo Indian Affair of 1811, 181-200. Roberts, Captain Jacob, 26.

Robertson, James M., Captain Amon B. King, 147-150. Rodríguez, Agustín, 224, 298.

Ross, Lawrence Sullivan, ranger serv ice, 24, 34.

Ross, Mary Katherine, mother uf L. S. Ross, 63.

Ross, Peter F., ranger service, 35.

Ross, Shapley P., ranger captain, 24, 26, 34; Indian agent, 101, 103, 113.

Rowe, Dr. Joseph, 54.

Sanaco, Comanche chief, leaves reserva tion, 104.

San Antonio, Texas, instructions for founding it, 85; in 1884, 75; in 1828, 257; evacuation of by Mexican army in 1836, 246.

Sánchez, Captain Francisco (Chamus cado), 224.

Sánchez, José María, Diary of trip to Texas, 1828, 249-288; Laredo, 250; petrified forest, 252; Frio River, 254; Medina River, 256; Bexar, 257-260; Comanches, 261-265; Wacos and Tahuacanos, 265; Indian agriculture, 266 ; Gonzales, 267 ; Tonkawa camp, 269; San Felipe, 271; forecast of revo lution, 271; buys corn from Jared E. Groce, 273; Vidais Indians, 276; mosquitoes, 277, 278, 280, 281 ; Nacog doches, 282.

San Felipe de Austin, in 1828, 270.

Santa María, Juan de, 224, 293-296. Sartucho [Sertuche], , 278.

Satanic, Comanche chief, 189, 191.

Satanta, Comanche chief, leads raid in Texas, 187; arrested, 189; trial, 191; conditional pardon, 196; returned to penitentiary, 198.

Sequin, Texas, history of, 247.

Selkirk, William, surveyor, 91.

Sertuche [Sartucho], , 278.

Sextant, influence on navigation and surveying, 87.

Shackelford, Captain of California emi grant company, 134.

Shattuck, David 0., supports Clay, 178.

Shaw, Jim, interpreter, 104.

Shaw, Owen, ranger service, 27, 31.

Shelby County, regulators and mod erators in, 246.

Sherman, Sidney, 36.

Sherman, W. T., opposes pardon to con victed Indian murderers, 195, 196.

Sims, Bartlett, surveyor, 91.

Sitio de ganado major, defined, 86.

Sitio de ganado minor, defined, 86.

Smith, J. M., scouting, 25, 26, 118.

Smith, Launa M., American Relations with Mexico, reviewed, 320.

Smith, General Persifor F., requests rangers to campaign against Indians, 28.

Smith, Captain Thomas, 36, 42.

Spell, Lota M., The First Text Booh Used in Texas, 289-295, ; Coahuiltecan language, 290; questions asked the Indians, 291 ; relations of parents and children, 292; tribal habits, 293; hell described, 294-295. Spencer, Hamilton, mail contractor, 2.

"Solomon's ' WC= on the Brazos, ,52. Starr, Colonel S. H., report on illegal Indian trade, 1868, 184.

Steiner, J. M., 118.

Suerte of land, defined, 86.

Sutton, Captain John S., 26.

Tahuacano Indians, in 1828, 265.

Tanks, the Waco, 129.

Tarnava, Constantino, with Terán's boundary commission, 249.

Tatum, Laurie, witness in trial of Indians, 192.

Terán, Manuel de Mier y, boundary commission, 249; description of cere monious Indian visits, 283.

Terry's Company, California immi grants, 214.

Texas, Mississippi Whigs on annexation of, 161-185. Text-book, the first used in Texas, 289 295.

(For analysis, see Spell.) Thorn, Capt. Herman, California emi grant, 205, 221.

Tonkawa Indians, 269.

Toro, Alfonso, biographies of Ramos; Arizpe and Lorenzo de Zavala, 245.

Torrey, David, murdered by Indians,, 108.

Travis, Charles E., 28.

Trotter, H. A., 59.

Tyler, George W., 77.

Universal Emigration Company, the English, buys land in Texas, 54.

University of Texas, Library, newspaper acquisitions, 247.

Van Zandt, Isaac, 247.

Vara, defined, 86.

Vidais Indians, 276.

Waco Indians, in 1828, 265.

Waco Tanks, 129.

Walker, Mrs. J. A., 77.

Walker, John G., 28.

Walker, E. J., The' WC= South in ' WC= 174.

Walker, Sam, ranger service, 24.

Wallace, W. A., 26.

Warner's Ranch, 207.

Webb, W. P., on the work of the rang ers, 24 ; influence of the six-shooter on the West, 77.

Western, the Great, noted woman, 219.

West Texas Historical Yearbook, 245.

Westward the Course of Empire, 160.

Wharton, Clarence, fixes first survey made in Austin's Colony, 92.

Wharton, Texas, in 1886, 233.

Whigs, of Mississippi on annexation of Texas, 161-180. Whipple, Lt. Amiel W., 203, 222.

White, Owen P., El Paso to Prohibition, 245.

Whiting, Major Sam, emigrant party to California, 39.

Whitten, W. W., passenger on the Over land, 11.

Williams, George, Delaware interpreter, 104.

Williams, Samuel M., 271.

Wilsey, 8,., passenger on the Overland, 14.

Winkler, E. W., The Bryan-Hayes Cor respondence, 66-76, 151-156, 232-236, 301-314. Winston, James E., The Mississippi Whigs and the Annexation of Texas, 161-180. Woolfork, J. A., defends Indians, 191.

Work, Captain John, 32.

Verger, William, opposition to annexa tion of Texas, 169, 178.

Young, Captain Joseph, 212.

Yuma, Fort, sketch of, 204.

Zavala, Lorenzo, 245.

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