_Southwestern Historical Quarterly_, published since 1897 by Texas State Historical Association, Austin. A depository of all kinds of history; the first twenty-five or thirty volumes are the more interesting. SWEET, ALEXANDER E., and KNOX, J. ARMOY. _On a Mexican Mustang Through Texas_, Hartford, 1883. Humorous satire, often penetrating and ruddy with actuality. WALLIS, JONNIE LOCKHART. _Sixty Years on the Brazos: The Life and Letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart_, privately printed, Los Angeles, 1930. In notebook style, but as rare in essence as it is among dealers in out-of-print books. WAUGH, JULIA NOTT. _Castroville and Henry Castro_, San Antonio, 1934. OP. Best-written monograph dealing with any aspect of Texas history that I have read. WYNN, AFTON. "Pioneer Folk Ways," in _Straight Texas_, Texas Folklore Society Publication XIII, 1937. 10. Fighting Texians THE TEXAS PEOPLE belong to a fighting tradition that the majority of them are proud of. The footholds that the Spaniards and Mexicans held in Texas were maintained by virtue of fighting, irrespective of missionary baptizing. The purpose of the Anglo-American colonizer Stephen F. Austin to "redeem Texas from the wilderness" was accomplished only by fighting. The Texans bought their liberty with blood and maintained it for nine years as a republic with blood. It was fighting men who pushed back the frontiers and blazed trails. The fighting tradition is now giving way to the oil tradition. The Texas myth as imagined by non-Texans is coming to embody oil millionaires in airplanes instead of horsemen with six-shooters and rifles. See Edna Ferber's Giant (1952 novel). Nevertheless, many Texans who never rode a horse over three miles at a stretch wear cowboy boots, and a lot of Texans are under the delusion that bullets and atomic bombs can settle complexities that demand informed intelligence and the power to think. As I have pointed out in _The Flavor of Texas_, the chronicles of men who fought the Mexicans and were prisoners to them comprise a unique unit in the personal narratives and annals of America. Many of the books listed under the headings of "Texas Rangers," "How the Early Settlers Lived," and "Range Life" specify the fighting tradition. BEAN, PETER ELLIS. _Memoir_, published first in Vol. I of Yoakum's _History of Texas_; in 1930 printed as a small book by the Book Club of Texas, Dallas, now OP. A fascinating narrative. BECHDOLT, FREDERICK R. _Tales of the Old Timers_, New York, 1924. Forceful retelling of the story of the Mier Expedition and of other activities of the "fighting Texans." OP. CHABOT, FREDERICK C. _The Perote Prisoners_, San Antonio, 1934. Annotated diaries of Texas prisoners in Mexico. OP. DOBIE, J. FRANK. _The Flavor of Texas_, Dallas, 1936. OP. Chapters on Bean, Green, Duval, Kendall, and other representers of the fighting Texans.