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Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick / arranged by Mary A. Maverick and her son Geo. Madison Maverick ; edited by Rena Maverick Green ; (illustrated).
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maverick, Mary Adams, 1818-1898, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maverick, Mary Adams, 1818-1898.
- Maverick, Mary Adams.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846.
- Texas.
- Texas--History--1846-1950.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Maverick, Albert, Jr., 1883-1962 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Maverick, Lillian Williams, 1889-1973 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Young, Phillip L., Mrs. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [5], 8-136 pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Antonio, Texas : Alamo Printing Co., 1921.
- Contents:
- Family history
- ancestors
- Early married days
- Ho, for the lone star
- Tonkawa Indians
- San Antonio de Bexar
- Comanche Indians
- Doctor Weideman
- Comanches and a duel
- Family history resumed
- Flight
- Perote
- Colorado River bottoms
- Life on the peninsula
- The angel of death
- Our new home on Alamo Plaza
- Conclusion
- Letters, etc.
- Notes:
- Plates: title leaf and 16 unnumbered leaves of illustrations.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("From Albert Maverick, Xmas, 1941 Sun Shine Ranch the home of your Grand Father, Albert Maverick. This book has been noted the best one writen West of the Miss. about that time [added above: by the historical Society]. The notes & dates were kept carefully in Mrs. S.A. Maverick's note book she kept form a young woman when starting to Texas. Mrs. Albert Maverick Sun Shine Ranch Texas") on verso of frontispiece plate.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mrs. Phillip L. Young") on cover.
- Schimmel Collection copy: typescript errata slip affixed to verso of frontispiece plate.
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 89
- OCLC:
- 2043274
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