Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State

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Notes  . Walter L. Buenger and Robert A. Calvert, eds., Texas through Time: Evolving Interpretations , xiii. . C. Vann Woodward, Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History, chap. . . Buenger and Calvert, Texas through Time, xi. . Joe B. Frantz, “Lone Star Mystique,” American West  (May ): . . Juan Agustín Morfi, History of Texas, –, vol. , trans. Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, –. . Fray José Antonio Pichardo, Pichardo’s Treatise on the Limits of Louisiana and Texas, vol. , trans. and ed. Charles W. Hackett, xiv. . William Kennedy, Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, in One Volume, xix. . The phrase, “to improve the accuracy of impression,” came from “The Romance of History,” a review of England, by Henry Neele, Edinburgh Review  (May ): –. In its original context, it referred to characteristics of romantic history in general and not specifically to Yoakum. . Henderson Yoakum to Martin Van Buren,  June , Martin Van Buren Papers, Presidential Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress Series , reel . . Quoted in Bowen C. Tatum Jr., “A Texas Patriot,” Texas Bar Journal  (Sept. ): . . Dudley G. Wooten, ed, A Comprehensive History of Texas,  to , vol. , v; C. W. Raines, review of A Comprehensive History of Texas, by Dudley G. Wooten, Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association  (July ): –; Z. T. Fulmore, The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names, ; Herbert Gambrell, “Scholars of the Past Find Our History a Rich Field,” Dallas Times Herald,  Oct. ; Eugene C. Barker, “Professor Barker Considers Growth of Our Historians,” Dallas Morning News,  Oct. . . R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, . . New York Turf, Field, and Farm, quoted in Dallas Weekly Herald,  Dec. ; Dallas Weekly Herald,  Jan. . . Robert A. Calvert, introduction to A Texas Scrapbook. Made up of the History, Biography, and Miscellany of Texas and Its People, compiled by D. W. C. Baker, xxii. . Raines, review of Comprehensive History of Texas, . . Quoted in John H. Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, . . Larry McMurtry, In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas, ; Buenger and Calvert, Texas through Time, xi. .  . Morfi, History of Texas, vol. , . . Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, “Biographical Introduction,” in Morfi, History of Texas, vol. , . . Ibid., , –. . A translation by Elizabeth Howard West of Antonio Bonilla’s Breve Compendio de la Historia de Texas appeared in the Quarterly of the Texas Historical Association  (July ): –. . Castañeda, “Biographical Introduction,” . . Morfi, History of Texas, vol. , –. . See Edmundo O’Gorman, The Invention of America: An Inquiry into the Historical Nature of the New World and Meaning of Its History; also Harry Bernstein, “Some InterAmerican Aspects of the Enlightenment,” in Latin America and the Enlightenment, ed. Arthur P. Whitaker, d ed. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press), –; Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, , –; and R. W. B. Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, . . Morfi, History of Texas, vol. , –. . Ibid., . . For a detailed explanation of the inspection and report of Revera and Morfi’s refutation of it, see Morfi, History of Texas, vol. , –. . Pichardo, Treatise, vol. , passim; Hubert Howe Bancroft, North Mexican States and Texas, –, –. . Castañeda, “Biographical Introduction,” –. . Pichardo, Treatise, vol. , . Pichardo made it clear in his introduction that the entrance of the United States into the territorial matters concerning the region prompted the necessity for a concise history of the boundary question; see also Charles W. Hackett’s comments, ibid., xiv. . Ron Tyler et al., eds., The New Handbook of Texas, vol. , . Some discrepancy exists with regard to Pichardo’s birth date. Charles W. Hackett noted that according to the Mexican bibliographer Medina, Pichardo was born in . See Pichardo, Treatise, vol. , xviii. . Luis Monguío, “Las Luces and the Enlightenment in Spanish America,” in The Ibero-American Enlightenment, ed. A. Owen Aldridge (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ), –; Pichardo, Treatise, vol. , xviii; Tyler et al., New Handbook of Texas, vol. , –; vol. , . . For this reason Carlos E. Castañeda asserted that Pichardo’s Treatise was not in fact a history but an argumentative brief with definite limitations as a history of Spanish Texas. Morfi, History of Texas, vol. , . . Pichardo, Treatise, vol. , ; quotes, , . . Ibid., xix. . Ibid., first quote, vol. , ix–x; second quote, vol. , –. . Ibid., vol. , .  ★ Notes to Pages ‒ . Ibid., xx, . . Ibid., vol. , xiv. . Arthur P. Whitaker, ed., introduction to Latin America and the Enlightenment, xiii. .       . Helmut Lehman-Haupt, The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States, , –. . See, for example, Thomas W. Streeter, Bibliography of Texas, –; C. W. Raines, A Bibliography of Texas; John...