The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the Making of Texas

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Notes preface 1. Texas History Movies, 1956. chapter 1 1. Originally released in 1956, the movie Giant was directed by George Stevens and starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Chill Wills, and Mercedes McCambridge . For James Dean, Giant would be the last film of his short career. 2. George N. Green, “The Felix Longoria Affair.” 3. Thomas S. Sutherland IV, “Our Forebear Was George Sutherland,” in Carol Sutherland Hatfield, ed., “The Poems of Thomas S. Sutherland,” 14. chapter 2 1. Florence S. Hudson, We Cousins, vol. 1, 19. 2. Malcolm D. McLean, Papers concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas, vol. 18, 106 –107. 3. Thomas S. Sutherland IV, “The Texans,” in “Poems by Tommy Sutherland, 1930 –1950,” 166. 4. Ibid., “Here on These Rolling Acres of Land,” 84. 5. John Henry Brown, History of Texas, from 1685 to 1892; Frederick Law Olmsted, “Olmsted’s Texas Journey”; Frédéric Leclerc, Texas and Its Revolution. 6. John Sutherland, The Fall of the Alamo. 7. John Sutherland Menefee, Papers and Letters, letter, June 1841. 8. John Sutherland Menefee, “Early Jackson County Settlers.” 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. chapter 3 1. Malcolm D. McLean, Papers concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (hereafter cited as PCRCT). 2. Malcolm D. McLean, “Hot Pursuit: Collecting Material concerning Robertson’s Colony, Texas.” 3. William C. Harllee, Kinfolks. 4. McLean, “Hot Pursuit.” chapter 4 1. Texas History Movies, 1956. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid., 4. 4. Ibid., 36. 5. Ibid., 47. 6. Ibid., 60. 7. Ibid., 81. 8. Ibid., 83. 9. Ibid., 91. 10. Ibid., 94. 11. Ibid., 100. 12. Ibid., 107. 13. Ibid., 108. 14. Ibid., 109. 15. Texas History Movies: A Cartoon History of the Lone Star State, 1985. 16. Kent Biffle, “A Revival of Book on Early Texas Stirs Objections.” 17. John H. Brown, History of Texas, from 1685 to 1892. 18. Ibid., 3–4. 19. Lawrence Honig, John Henry Brown: Texian Journalist, 1820–1895, 7. 20. James M. Day, “James Kerr: Frontier Texian,” 24 –25. 21. Honig, 30 –31. 22. Ira T. Taylor, The Cavalcade of Jackson County, v. 23. Andrés Tijerina, Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821–1836, 5–25. 24. Robert A. Calvert and Arnoldo De León, The History of Texas, 48. 25. Randolph B. Campbell, Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State, 126; Calvert and De León, The History of Texas, 63. 26. Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, “World History in a Global Age.” 27. John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination, 25. 28. Ibid. 29. Peter Applebome, “Out from under the Nation’s Shadow,” A15. chapter 5 1. Gregg Cantrell, “A Matter of Character: Stephen F. Austin and the ‘Papers concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas.’ ” 192 Notes to Pages 18–40 2. PCRCT, 1974 –1993. 3. Ibid., vol. 1, xlii. 4. The Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. “Austin, Stephen Fuller.” 5. Eugene C. Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793–1836: A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People, 47. 6. PCRCT, 1986, introductory volume. 7. Ibid., 498–99. 8. PCRCT, vol. 2, 269–88, 296 –301. 9. Ibid., 60. 10. Ibid., 60 – 68. 11. Ibid., 620. 12. Ibid., vol. 1, 10. 13. Ibid., vol. 4, 65. 14. Ibid., vol. 5, 42–43. 15. Ibid., 44 –45. 16. Ibid., 46. 17. Ibid., 49–54. 18. Cantrell, “A Matter of Character,” 234. 19. PCRCT, vol. 7, 24. 20. Ibid., 28–29. 21. Ibid., 3–34. 22. Ibid., 34 –35. 23. Ibid., 38. 24. Ibid., 496. 25. Ibid., vol. 8, 30 –35. 26. Ibid., 42–45. 27. Ibid., 46 –47. 28. Ibid., 50. 29. Ibid., 51. 30. Ibid., 53–54. 31. Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin, 404. 32. PCRCT, vol. 7, 21. 33. Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin, 318. 34. Ibid., 320. 35. Ibid., 391, footnote. 36. Letter from Austin to ayuntamiento of San Antonio, Oct. 2, 1833, ibid., 374. 37. Ibid., 384. 38. Brown, History of Texas, from 1685 to 1892, 467, 466. 39. PCRCT, vol. 14, 35. 40. The Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. “Republic of Texas,” 4. 41. Francis Richard Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock , Governor of Texas in War Time, 1861–1863. A Personal Experience in Business, War, and Politics, 108. Notes to Pages 40–54 193 42. PCRCT, vol. 11, 89. 43. Birdie...