TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; PRE-COLUMBIAN HISTORY; SPANISH TEXAS; FRAY MARCOS OF NIZA, 1539; QUIVIRA; FRENCH AND SPANISH INTERESTS; LA SALLE; FRENCH PRESENCE; SPANISH AND FRENCH -- ESTABLISHMENT OF MISSIONS; THE FRENCH AT RED ROVER; MISSIONS ATTACKED BY COMANCHES AND ALLIES; MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE; ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIZATION; PROPOSED COLONIZATION OF TEXAS; FORT ANAHUAC; FORT LIPANTITLAN; FORT TENOXTITLAN; FORT TERAN; OLD STONE FORT; THE ALAMO; HENRY PERRY -- FILIBUSTER; HISTORY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS; EARLY EUROPEAN EXPLORATION; FRENCH COLONIZATION OF TEXAS, 1684-1689.

SPANISH TEXAS, 1690-1821ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MISSIONS, 1718-1719; MEXICAN CONTROL OF TEXAS, 1821-1836; ANGLO-AMERICAN IMMIGRATION -- RESTRICTIONS; THE PRECURSOR TO REVOLT; INSURRECTION OF 1832; TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE; THE TEXAS REVOLUTION; THE TEXAS OFFENSIVE; THE BRIEF BATTLE OF LIPANTITLAN; SIEGE OF BEXAR; SANTA ANNA'S OFFENSIVE; GOLIAD CAMPAIGN; TEXAN FORCE AND THE BATTLE OF REFUGIO; BATTLE OF COLETO; THE GOLIAD MASSACRE; SURVIVORS ACCOUNTS OF GOLIAD; THE ANGEL OF GOLIAD -- FRANCITA ALAVEZ; REMINISCENCES OF ANDREW BOYLE; DILLARD COOPER'S REMEMBRANCES OF THE FANNIN MASSACRE.

NICHOLAS W. EASTLAND AND CAPT. HORTON'S TROOPWILLIAM LOCKHART HUNTER; THE ESCAPE OF KENTUCK; AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOLIAD MASSACRE, BY MAJOR MILLER'S SECRETARY; FANNIN'S RETREAT AND THE BATTLE OF COLETO (AN ACCOUNT BY MS. CASH); FANNIN AND HIS COMMAND; THE ALAMO; THE APACHE WARS; EL PASO -- LOCAL HISTORY, 1540 -1821; EARLY TIMES IN TEXAS, OR THE ADVENTURES OF JACK DOBELL; EDWARD BURLESON; STEPHEN FULLER AUSTIN; MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR; DAVID (DAVY) CROCKETT; JAMES (JIM) BOWIE; 'BIG FOOT' WALLACE; CYNTHIA ANN PARKER -- INDIAN CAPTIVE; REBECCA JANE GILLILAND FISHER -- INDIAN CAPTIVE.

MATILDA LOCKHART -- INDIAN CAPTIVEBUFFALO HUMP; PETA NOCONA; JOSE MARIA (ANDARKO); BOWL; TEXAS JACK; JOSEFA RODRIGUEZ (CHIPITA); FAMOUS TEXANS; APPENDIX; HISPANIC TEXIAN PATRIOTS; PUBLIC OPINION IN TEXAS PRECEDING THE REVOLUTION; COLUMBIA RESOLUTIONS 23RD JUNE 1835; THE REPUBLIC OF THE RIO GRANDE IN 1840; MIER AND SOMERVELL EXPEDITIONS IN 1842; PRESIDIO LA BAHIA (SITE OF THE GOLIAD MASSACRE); SOURCES.