THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE: THREE GENERATIONS OF AGARIAN ENTREPRENEURS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY TEXAS.
LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES
Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1993. xi,337pp. Index. Genealogy Charts (2). Photographs. Leather spine with title in gilt on spine, white linen cloth covers with matching linen slipcase. First edition, limited edition of 150 copies. Fine copy in an equally nice slipcase. John Cartwright moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1825. Eight years later, he established the town of San Augustine. In his move from Tennessee, Cartwright brought a cotton gin, blacksmith tools, and saleable merchandise providing much needed goods and services to the area. Cartwright descendants saved an extensive collection of nineteenth-century letters and account books. These documents give an unusually complete understanding of economic conditions affecting merchants in the “Redlands” from the 1820s through the Civil War. Additionally, they and their in-laws participated both directly and indirectly in significant historical events in Texas history and leave us with their unique, first person views.