John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman: Lawman and Rancher

Selected Bibliography

SelectedBibliography Archives and Manuscript Sources Adjutant General Papers. Muster and payrolls, correspondence to and from the adjutant general , special orders, other relevant documents. Adj. Gen. Dept. Archives & Information Services. Division of the Texas State Library & Archives Commission (hereafter ARIS/ TSLAC), Austin. Armstrong, Lavanda M. “Genealogy and Family Collections, Etc. of the Armstrong-Ready Family of Tennessee.” May 23, 1933. Tobin Armstrong Collection, Armstrong Ranch. Armstrong, Thomas R. “Capture of John Wesley Hardin by John B. Armstrong of the Texas Rangers.” Typescript prepared by T. R. Armstrong at the request of his brother Charles M. Armstrong. Copy in author’s possession. Armstrong family bible. Tobin Armstrong Collection, Armstrong Ranch. “The Armstrong Ranch: History of a Noble Pioneer Family of Texas.” No author. Typescript. Tobin Armstrong Collection, Armstrong Ranch. Aten, Ira. “Six and One Half Years in the Ranger Service Fifty Years Ago.” Typescript. Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. Brown, Frank. “Annals of Travis County and the City of Austin.” Typescript. Austin History Center, Austin, Texas. The prospectus dates publication as 1901. Callicott, William C. Correspondence. Walter Prescott Webb Papers. Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. “Cemetery Record.” Austin History Center, Austin, Texas. “Delegation from Dalhart Big Part of Gathering.” Roy W. Aldrich Newspaper Clippings Collection , folder no. 201. Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas. “The Durst and Armstrong Families.” No author, no date. Tobin Armstrong Collection, Armstrong Ranch. John Wesley Hardin Letters. Special Collections, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University , San Marcos. Hilgartner-Palm Papers. Austin History Center, Austin, Texas. Hubbard, Richard B. Correspondence. ARIS/TSLAC, Austin, Texas. Roberts, A. S. “Reminiscences.” Typescript. Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. “Schedule of Inhabitants in the City of Austin, County of Travis, State of Texas, 1875.” Austin History Center, Austin, Texas. Steele, William. “Results of Operations of State Troops Since August 1, 1876 to December 31, 1881.” Adj. Gen. Dept. ARIS/TSLAC, Austin, Texas. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Census for Tennessee: Cannon County (free), 1850; Cannon County (slave), 1850; Warren County (free), 1860; Warren County (slave), 1860. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Census for Texas: Nueces County, 1880; Travis County, 1860, 1870, 1880. Weed, V. O. “Recollections of V. O. Weed.” Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. Newspapers Atlanta Daily Constitution, 1877. Austin American, 1927, 1935. Austin Daily Statesman, 1886. Austin Statesman, 1897, 1904, 1913, 1935. Colorado Citizen (Columbus), 1875. Cuero Daily Record, 1913. 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Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association Records: 1877–1968. 1969. Rev. Anne H. Takenoto. Fort Worth: Texas Printing Co., 1972. Barkley, Mary Star. History of Travis County and Austin 1839–1899. Waco, Tex.: Texian Press, 1963. Bennett, John M. Those Who Made It: The Story of the Men and Women of National Bank of Commerce of San Antonio, 1903–1998. [San Antonio, Tex.:] Privately printed, 1978. Bowden, Jesse Earle, and William S. Cummins. Texas Desperado in Florida: The Capture of Outlaw John Wesley Hardin in Pensacola, 1877. Pensacola, Fla.: Pensacola Historical Society , 2002. 136 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Britton, Frank L. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Texas for the Year 1873. Austin: Cardwell & Walker, 1874. By-Laws, Rules and Regulations and Names of Members and Minutes of the Annual Meeting at El Paso, Texas, March 18–19, 1913 of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas. Fort Worth: Texas Printing Co., 1913. 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