Search Results: Authors starting with T from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

[[Slavery] [African American] Thomas Taylor. Autograph Letter, Signed. [Columbus, Texas?]: January 7, 1861. Handwritten letter on gray lined paper. 20 x 23 cm. Discoloration and small splits at old folds. Writing is legible.
Mr. Taylor writes to a friend passing on word that "Mr. Shropshire requested me to let you know that he wishes the negro hire settled." Says Mr. Shropshire will be here a few days and mentions he may be in Lagrange today. There is a town named La Grange in Texas and there was a prominent slave and plantation owner named Shropshire in nearby Columbus, Texas. John Samuel Shropshire moved to Texas in 1854 and settled in Columbus, Colorado County. In 1860 Shropshire owned sixty-one slaves and operated a 750-acre plantation. - Handbook of Texas. It was common for slavers to hire out the enslaved persons, as shown in this letter on the eve of the Civil War.

[Mexican War] [Zachary Taylor] The One-Legged Sergeant. A sketch of the life and character of Gen. Taylor, the American Hero and People's man: together with a concise history of the Mexican War; Description of the Battles, Official Return of Killed and Wounded, Anecdotes of General Taylor and Incidents of the War, Remarkable Bravery and Humanity of an American Woman Connected with the Army, Naval Operations, and Sketches of the Lives of Ringgold, Brown, May, Woods, &c. New York: N.H. Blanchard; Boston: J.B. Hall, 1847. Pictorial wraps. 24 cm. Illustrated. [3] – 36 pp. Small chip and bumps to corners, and tear to upper edge of covers, stains and smudges, else very good.
This issue is scarce today. OCLC shows 44 holdings, six in Texas (DRT; Houston Pub. Lib.; San Jac. Mus.; SMU; Texas Tech. & UT-Arlington). Garrett & Goodwin, pp. 251-252. Tutorow 3729. Howes T80. This is one of the first pamphlets in the making of Taylor as hero. Authorship is attributed to "The One-legged Sergeant." "Much of Texas… Read More

[Mexican War] [Zachary Taylor] The One-Legged Sergeant. A sketch of the life and character of Gen. Taylor, the American Hero and People's man: together with a concise history of the Mexican War; Description of the Battles, Official Return of Killed and Wounded, Anecdotes of General Taylor and Incidents of the War, Remarkable Bravery and Humanity of an American Woman Connected with the Army, Naval Operations, and Sketches of the Lives of Ringgold, Brown, May, Woods, &c. New York: N.H. Blanchard; Boston: J.B. Hall, 1847. Pictorial wraps. 24 cm. Illustrated. [3] – 36 pp. Small chip and bumps to corners, and tear to upper edge of covers, stains and smudges, else very good.This issue is scarce today. OCLC shows 44 holdings, six in Texas (DRT; Houston Pub. Lib.; San Jac. Mus.; SMU; Texas Tech. & UT-Arlington). Garrett & Goodwin, pp. 251-252. Tutorow 3729. Howes T80. This is one of the first pamphlets in the making of Taylor as hero. Authorship is attributed to "The One-legged Sergeant." "Much of Texas… Read More

[Cattle] [California] The Pacific Coast Live-Stock Owners' Mutual Protective Association. Certificate of Membership. San Francisco: Crocker & Co. 1890. One page. 17" x 14", April 3, 1890, Monterey, California. The certificate, numbered "1010", has engravings of beef, goat, sheep, hogs, and a horse and is surrounded by a richly ornamented border. The document was issued to C. E. Chapman and is signed by G. W. Gallemar as secretary and B. V. Sargent as president. Folds and light staining, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item and one holding for the Constitution and By-Laws this organization (UC-Berkeley). B. V. Sargent, born in Grafton, New Hampshire, arrived in San Francisco in 1849 and immediately went to work in the mines on Mokelumne River. Later that year, he moved to San Jose, where he operated a hotel. In the fall of 1850 Sargent and his three brothers settled in San Joaquin County and went into the stock business as "Sargent Brothers" amassing large land and cattle holdings… Read More

[Religion] [Women] Elizabeth Thomas Robins(?). An Address to Seamen. Sunderland: Reed and Son, Printers. [Circa 1816-1840] Small broadside. 16.5 x 20.8 cm. Signed.
OCLC shows no holdings. Reed and Son, in Sunderland, printed religious tracts and a few other items in Sunderland between 1816 and 1840, including those by the Rector of Sunderland, Robert Gray. Seeking to instruct Seamen who "do business on great waters" that they should be preserved "from joining in with the temptations which so generally prevail" including "profane swearing, foolish and corrupt language, drunkenness, hatred, anger, revenge, &ct." A scholarly account with appropriate footnotes citing the scripture referenced. Sunderland is a port city in northern England, so sailors would be a natural audience there. Signed Elizabeth (Thomas) Robins, with a note she was from Sunderland, later Liverpool and was the great Aunt of the person making the note. Unusual in the time for a woman to publish such a tract, perhaps why it signed only… Read More

[Mexico][Religion] José Julio García de Torres. Vindicacion del clero mexicano vulnerado en las anotaciones que publicó el M.R.P. Fr. José Joaquin Oyarzabal contra la representacion que el mismo clero dirigió al Illmô. y venerable cabildo sede-vacante promoviendo la defensa de su inmunidad personal. México: M.A. Valdes, impresor de Cámara de S.M. 1812. Disbound. 20 cm. 16 pp. Staining and corner bends, tear on pp. 7-8 affecting one word. Good.
OCLC shows 10 holdings (U. Ariz.; UC-Berkeley; UCLA; Northwestern U.; Duke; U. Penn.; SMU-Birdwell; UT-Austin; Biblio. Nat Mexico & Inst. Tech. de Estudios Sup.)

[Mexican War] Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the government for the year ending June 30, 1847. December 14, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table. Washington, DC: GPO. 1847. 30th Congress, Ex. Doc. No. 7. Disbound. Tables. 429 [7] pp.
OCLC shows one copy (U. Wyo.) Account of the receipts and expendatures for the year July 1, 1846 to June30, 1847. Much interesting information on the military expendatures. Also the cost of maintaining to various Indian Treaties is listed.

Walter Turnbull. Tulare County, California, Where can be Found Climate Soil and Water. The only sure Combination for the "Vineyardist," the Fruit Grower, the Cattle Raiser and Farmer. For information address Pacific Coast Land Bureau 22 Montgomery St. San Francisco, Cal. Walter Turnbull, Tulare, Cal.; The best land for the money, to be found in Tulare County. [San Francisco?]: [Publisher not identified.] [1885.] Yellow pictorial wraps. 22 cm. Illustrated. Map. 63 [1] pp. Advertisements, p. 1-16, 54-[64], and p. [2-4] of wrapper. Front cover ships; rear cover stain. Page corners bent.
OCLC shows six holdings (AAS; Claremont Col.; UC-Berkley; Yale; SMU & Huntington.) Not in Adams, Herd. Has a section on Cattle Raising. At head of title: Read this carefully, and send it to some friend. First edition: 50,000 copies. Includes statistics through 1885.

[Texas] Tyler, President John. Texas. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the rejected treaty for the annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States, together with the accompanying documents, June 11, 1844. [Washington]: [No publication information]. Disbound. 23 cm. 110 pp.
28th Cong. 1st. Sess. Doc. No. 271 House of Representatives. In 1843 the United States became alarmed over the policy of Great Britain toward Texas. The British were opposed to annexation and even contemplated the use of force to prevent it. They did not wish to add Texas to the British Empire, but they did want to prevent the westward expansion of the United States, to reap commercial advantages from Texas trade, and to tamper with the American tariff system and the institution of slavery. President John Tyler, concluding that Texas must not become a satellite of Great Britain, proposed annexation. After some sparring, Houston consented to the negotiation of a treaty of annexation, which was… Read More

[Texas] [Unions] Souvenir of International Typographical Union, 83rd Convention, Fort Worth, Texas, August 19-26, 1939. Fort Worth, Texas: Allied Printing Trades Council. 1939. Pictorial stiff wraps with leather binding strip and silver concho. 24 x 32 cm. Illustrated. Portraits. Map. [92] pp. Very good.
OCLC shows three holdings (Univ. Chicago; UT-Arlington & UT-Austin). An elaborate production, as to be expected for a convention of printers. Short articles on Fort Worth, Dallas & Houston; the Texas Longhorn; Printers; Union activities and benefits; Women's Auxiliary; and more. Rosters of delegates. Many great advertisements.