Book Recommendations Submitted By Visitors
I
would recommend the following, all of which mention McMullen County
sites and
personalities:
Oden, Lon. Texas Ranger's Diary & Scrapbook, edited by
Ann Jensen.
Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1936. (Oden was the first born grandson of
Joe
Walker.)
Lauderdale, R. J., and John M. Doak. Life on the Range and On the
Trail.
San Antonio: Naylor, 1936.
Dobie, J. Frank. A Vaquero of the Brush Country. Boston:
Little, Brown
and Co., 1929.
Tanner, Karen Holliday, and John D.
Tanner, Jr. Last
of the Old-time Outlaws; The George West Musgrave Story. Norman:
Univ. of
Oklahoma Press, 2002. (Musgrave's mother was Joe Walker's second born
daughter.
Two of her sisters also married Musgraves).
Title: McMullen County History
This book is still available for purchase.
Author: McMullen County History Book Committee
Published: 1981
Title: Cultural Resource Survey of Choke Canyon Reservoir, Live Oak and McMullen Counties, Texas
Author: Warren M. Lynn, Daniel E. Fox and Nancy O'Malley
Publisher: Austin: Office of the State Archeologist, Texas Historical Commission, 1977
Title: Saddles Up
Author: Walden L. Smith
Publisher: San Antonio, Texas The Nalor Company 1937
Notes: A personal narrative of ranch life in McMullen County Texas
Title: Texas Irish Impresarios and Their Colonies
Author: William H. Oberste (1939 - 1983)
Publisher: Von Boukmann Jones CO. 1953
Title: Boothill Stories: taken from Dogtown stories of a frontier village with a past.
Author: Written and compiled by Henry Martin for the Cenizo Garden Club of McMullen County
Publisher: Tilden, Texas: McMullen County Historical Survey Committee 19--?
AUTHOR:
Texas State Library
TITLE: Records of Texas County and District Clerks, 1837-1977 :
special list of records available on microfilm at The University
of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio,
Texas.
PLACE: [Austin :
PUBLISHER: Texas State Library,
YEAR: 1977
PUB TYPE: Book
NOTES: "Microfilm described herein is property of the Texas State
Library and is housed at the Institute of Texas Cultures under
the provisions of the Regional Historical Resource Depository
Act, Art. 5442b."
Atascosa.--Bandera.--Bexar.--Comal.--DeWitt.--Dimmit.--Frio.--
Goliad.--Guadalupe.--Karnes.--Kendall.--Kerr.--Kinney.--LaSalle.--
McMullen.--Maverick.--Medina.--Real.--Uvalde.--Victoria.--Wilson.
SUBJECT: County government -- Texas.
Public records -- Texas.
Texas -- History, Local -- Sources -- Indexes.
AUTHOR:
Sorrow, William M.
TITLE: Interim report on the archeological and historical resources
of
the proposed Choke Canyon Reservoir, Live Oak and McMullen
Counties, Texas /
PLACE: Austin :
PUBLISHER: Texas Historical Commission ; Texas Water Development Board,
YEAR: 1974
PUB TYPE: Book
SERIES: [Special report - Office of the State Archeologist] ; 15
Texas. Office of the State Archeologist. Special report ; 15.
NOTES: H2000.7, Sp31, no. 15
Cover title.
Bibliography: leaves 20-23.
SUBJECT: Archaeological surveying.
Choke Canyon Reservoir site.
Live Oak County (Tex.) -- History.
McMullen County (Tex.) -- History.
OTHER: O'Malley, Nancy, joint author.
Fox, Daniel E., joint author.
Texas Historical Commission.
Texas Water Development Board.
Texas. Office of the State Archeologist.
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