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94 Notes Note to readers: Quotations throughout the text retain original spellings as found, but reprinted without the intrusive [sic], which can be distracting. Chapter 1 1 Dr.Antonio Lafon,“Report on theYellow Fever in the City of Matamoras from September 1853 to January 1854,” in Report of the Sanitary Commission of New Orleans on the EpidemicYellow Fever of 1853, by the New Orleans Sanitary Commission, authorized by the New Orleans City Council (New Orleans: Picayune Office, 1854), 136. 2 I am using the term norteños specifically to mean the Spanish Mexican settlers in the Villas del Norte on the lower Rio Grande, as per Omar S.Valerio-Jiménez, “Neglected Citizens and Willing Traders:TheVillas del Norte (Tamaulipas) in Mexico’s Northern Borderlands , 1749–1846,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 18 (Summer 2002): 251–96, and Oscar J. Martínez,“The Mexican Northern Frontier, 1800–1821,” The Handbook of Hispanic Cultures: History, ed.Alfredo Jiménez (Houston:Arte Público Press, 1994), 261–62. 3 The misspelling is the fault of the translator or the New Orleans Sanitary Commission, not Doctor Lafon, who would have known better. “Matamoras” was the most common misspelling for more than a century in American and even British, German, and French publications. 4 John Henry Brown, History ofTexas, from 1685 to 1892 (2 vols.; St. Louis: L. E. Daniell, 1892), I, 542. 5 Craig H. Roell,“Matamoros Expedition of 1835–36,” in RonTyler, Douglas E. Barnett, Roy R. Barkley, Penelope C. Anderson, and Mark F. Odintz (eds.), The New Handbook of Texas, (6 vols.;Austin:Texas State Historical Association, 1996), IV, 561–65; Craig H. Roell, Remember Goliad! A History of La Bahía (Austin:Texas State Historical Association, 1994). 6 See, for example, D.W. C. Baker, A Brief History ofTexas from Its Earliest Settlement . . . for Schools (NewYork:A. S. Barnes & Co., 1873); Mary Mitchell Brown, A Condensed History of Texas for Schools, Prepared from the General History of John Henry Brown (Dallas: [n.p.], 1895); Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, Under Six Flags:The Story ofTexas (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1897); Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker, A History ofTexas for Schools,Also for General Reading and for Teachers Preparing Themselves for Examination (Tyler,Tex: [n.p.], 1888; 1895; rev. eds.; Austin: Mrs. PercyV. Pennybacker, 1908; 1912; 1924); Katie Daffan, Texas Heroes:An Historical Reader for the Grades (Boston: Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., 1908); and John Rosenfield Jr. with Jack Patton, Texas History Movies (Dallas: P. L.Turner Co, 1928; rev. ed.; Dallas: Magnolia Petroleum Co., 1943; 1954). 7 Jack Jackson to Tim O’Shea, interview, Silver Bullet Comic Books (n.d.), [Accessed Sept. 6, 2008]. Jackson was commenting on his The Alamo:An EpicTold from Both Sides (Austin: Paisano Graphics, 2002). 95 matamoros and the texas revolution 8 Recent books that discuss this fascinating literature are Walter Buenger and Robert A. Calvert (eds.), Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991); Laura Lyons McLemore, Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004); and Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes (eds.), Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007). 9 Andrés Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 150. 10 For an American perspective on the role of Manifest Destiny in the Texas story, see Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation (New York:Vintage Books, 1963); David M. Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Annexation:Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973); and Robert E. May, Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). For a Mexican perspective, see Gene M. Brack, Mexico Views Manifest Destiny, 1821–1846:An Essay on the Origins of the MexicanWar (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975); Gáston García Cantú, Las invasiones norteamericanos en México (México, D.F.: Fonda de Cultura Económica y Secretaría de la Defensa Naciónal, 1996); and María del Rosario Rodríguez Díaz,“Mexico’sVision of Manifest Destiny during the 1847 War,” Journal of Popular Culture 35 (Fall 2001): 41–50. For a critique of Manifest Destiny from a German perspective,see Andreas Reichstein,Rise of the Lone Star:The Making of Texas, trans. Jeanne R.Willson (College Station:Texas A&M University Press, 1989). For a British perspective especially significant to Matamoros, see Stuart Reid, The Secret...
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