THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF RUFUS C. BURLESON
Georgia J. Burleson
N.p [Waco]: Privately printed, 1901. 887pp. Frontis. portrait. Original decorative cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Externally, the spine is faded with some lesser fading to the bottom two inches of the back cover. Internally, the front hinge is starting but solid. The pages show some tanning to the perimeter. Overall, a good+ copy of a book usually found in rather poor condition. J. Frank Dobie: “The autobiographical part of this amorphously arranged volume is a social document of the first rank.” An often overlooked gold mine of Texas history, ostensibly about the first president of Baylor University, but containing a great deal of early Texas history unavailable elsewhere. It includes much on Sam Houston, General Edward Burleson, the Republic of Texas, etc.