A Journey Through Texas: Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier; with a Statistical Appendix ...

abolitionists acres American appeared asked Austin bales bank Bastrop Bexar bottom Brazos bushel cabin camp Castroville cattle cents coast Comanches corn cotton creek crop cultivated dollars door Eagle Pass emigrants farm feet fire Fort Inge four frontier Galveston gentleman German grass ground Guadalupe hands head herds hills horses Houston hundred Indianola Indians labor land live live-oaks look mass'r mesquit Mexican Mexico miles mule Nacogdoches Natchitoches negro neighbors Neu-Braunfels nigger night North norther Northern Orleans party passed Piedras Negras plantation planter population prairie reached Red River ride Rio Grande road rode saddle San Antonio San Augustine seen settlement settlers side Sisterdale slavery slaves Smithland soil soon South Spanish supper Texan tion told town trees Western Texas wood Woodland young