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thrall pictorial history of texas 1879

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Title: A Pictorial History of Texas, from the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A. D. 1879. Embracing the Periods of Missions, Colonization, the Revolution, the Republic, and the State, . . . also, a List of the Counties, with Historical and Topical Notes, and Descriptions of the Public Institutions of the State, Asylums, Penitentiary, Schools, Churches, Railroads, etc. Fifth Edition, Carefully Revised
Author: Thrall, Homer S.
Description: xix, 1 fl, (17)-861 pp. Illustrated with 95 wood-engraved plates (frontispiece, portraits, views, plans, etc.), 1 steel-engraved plate not listed in the contents, 2 folding maps, including large folding Texas map at rear. (8vo) original brown cloth stamped in gilt, black, and blind. Fifth Edition.Plates are mainly full-page and are included in the pagination. Extra plate "Confederate Chieftains," inserted at p. 389, engraved by J.C. Buttre and dated 1864. Rand McNally Texas map at rear dated 1880, the other map - "Texas in 1834" - shows the 14 Emprasario Grants in red outline. Howes says "Useful for its biographies . . ." Howes T242
Heading: Place Published: St. Louis, MO
Publisher: N. D. Thompson
Date Published: 1879