976.4 – All Texas

About Texas – Tx State Library

Tx State Library Online Exhibits
Tx Heritage Online –
search for historical documents and images
Lone Star Junction
Portal to Texas History: Young
Scholars Page (UNT)
Texas Tides – east Texas
related primary resources

Texans One & All – Institute of Texan Cultures @ UT-SA

Texas Almanac
Texas Beyond History
Texas Bob’s Texana Ranch – everything Texas!
Texas Day-by-Day – from TX State Historical Assn
Texas Senate Kids
Texas Trivia & Fun Facts from Tx Historical Commission

Geography
Travel
Maps, atlases, charts
Historical Maps of Texas – UT Library Online
Home Town Locator/Gazetteer – see aerial photo of your house!
Perry-Castenada Map Collection at Univ of Tx
See Texas
– interactive travel map
Terra-Server – Satellite/aerial photos
920 – Biography
Famous Texans

Native Americans

Texas Indians
See also Handbook of Texas link above
Native
Americans.com List of Nations A to Z
Native American Constitution & Law
Digitization Project
AccessGenealogy’s
Indian Tribes of the United States
Paleo-Indian Period: 9500-8000 BC
Mississippi Valley Prehistory: Paleo-Indian Period
Crossroads – Paleo-Indian Period
Archaic Period: 8000-500 BC
Mississippi Valley Prehistory: Archaic Period
Crossroads – Archaic Period
Late Prehistoric Period: 500 BC – 900 AD
Texas Beyond History: Imagine It
Mississippi Valley Prehistory: Woodlands Era
Crossroads – The Woodland Era
Mississippi Valley Prehistory: Mississippi Era – 900-1541AD
Historic Native Americans – Caddo

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Native American cultures present in Texas when the first Europeans
arrived in the 1500s included the
Caddos,
Tonkawas,
Atakapans,

Karankawas,

Coahuiltecans,
Jumanos
& Apaches.
Groups of Native Americans that moved into Texas after the first Europeans
arrived included
Kiowas,
Comanches,
Wichitas,
Wacos,
Tawakonis,
Cherokees,
Alabamas,

Coushattas,
Kickapoos,
Delawares,
Shawnees
& Tiguas.

Tonkawa Tribal History – from
official Tribe Website

Tonkawas: Indians of Central Texas
Wichitas, Wacos, Tawakonis

Wichita Legends
Cultures of North America
Encyclopedia of North American Indians
First Nations Compact
Histories

National Museum of American Indian: Online Exhibitions @ Smithsonian
Native American
Nations Homepages
Native
Americans.com
Native American Images photos of people, places
NativeWeb Resource Database
Oyate – Organization for honest portrayals of NAs
American Indian Resource Directory
Circle of Stories – Native American Storytelling
Marilee’s Native
American Resources
First
Americans Dine, Muscogee, Tlingit, Lakota, Iroquois
Native Americans
of SW Desert
Looking
Both Ways Alutiiq of So. Alaska
Seminole
Nation, Indian Territory

1528: Cabeza de Vaca arrives in Texas above Port Arthur then walked to the
Rio Grande at El Paso. His route took him through today’s Houston, Colorado
River & San Antonio.

Cabeza de Vaca’s Explorations of Native America
Texas Conquest Trails – Coronado & de Vaca

1684: French explorer La Salle lands on the coast of Texas. He explored as
far as the Pecos River & past the Trinity River to the east. He built Ft. St.
Louis on the west bank of Garcitas Creek, though it failed due to hunger,
disease & Karankawa Indian attacks.

Texas Filibusters
1813: Mexican filibuster Bernardo Gutierrez joined with American
Augustus Magee to free Texas & Mexico from Spanish Rule.

1819: American filibuster Dr James Long wanted to take over Texas & make
it part of the US. He was killed in 1821; his wife Jane is known as the Mother
of Texas.

1821: In January, Moses Austin acquired the right to settle 300 Catholic
families. When he died his son Stephen assumed the contract and the first
settlers arrived in late 1821.

1823: 1st 2 companies of Texas Rangers formed by Stephen F Austin to
protect settlers from Indian attacks.

Texas Slavery Project.org
– examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the
United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850

Texas Revolution

Brazoria Cty Museum-Where Texas Began
The Alamo
DOR Texas Library @ The Alamo
Texas Revolution Personalities
Hangman
Game
Texas/Colony to Independence: Rags to Riches

Texas Frontier

Texas Frontier Forts – Fort Concho
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Steamboat Era on Red River – pdf file; scroll down
Intl Boundary &
Water Commision Dam Projects
Water Issues
Along the Rio Grande

Cybersoup’s Wild West Native Americans & Cowboys/Cowgirls
Frontier Transportation – Stagecoach & Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad-Central Pacific
Pony Express Information
Pony Express Home Station
Steamboats.org
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1845-1860 Early Statehood

Texas in the Civil War
CivilWar.com
Civil War for Kids
Civil War Camp Life
The Southern Homefront 1861-1865
Natl Geog Map
Machine: Civil War – interactive maps of 5,200+ battlefields/historic sites,
details of 384 major battlefields
African Americans in the Civil War
Band Music from the Civil War Era – from LOC American Memory

Hotchkiss Map
Collection – Confederate Army maps from Lib of Cong

Texas Cattle Industry
1867-1884: Texas Cattlemen used the Chisholm Trail to drive over 6
million cattle out of Texas to the northern markets. Four main cattle trails
crossed Texas–Shawnee, Chisholm, Western, & Goodnight-Loving.
National Ranching Heritage
Center @ Lubbock
Origin & History of TX
Longhorns
TX Longhorn Information – Intl Tx Longhorn Assoc
Tx Longhorn Information – from Dickinson Cattle Co

1900 – Galveston Hurricane
On Sept 8, over 6,000 lives were lost in Galveston as a hurricane with winds
over 120 mph hit the island. It is still the worst national disaster to hit the
US.
Rosenberg Library
– leading repository for info related to the 1900 Galveston Storm

Texas Oil Industry
1901 – discovery of oil at Spindletop revolutionized the oil & drilling
industry in the US. Before Spindletop’s 70,000 barrels of oil PER DAY, no other
well had produced more than 3,000 barrels in a whole month.

Spindletop & the Oil & Gas Industry