WHARTON’S HISTORY OF FORT BEND COUNTY.
Houston: The Anson Jones Press, 1939. xi,250pp. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Appendices. Map. Photographic endpapers and map of Texas. Gray cloth with title in black ink on cover and spine. First edition. Externally, near fine. Internally, with the ink ownership stamp of the great granddaughter of James Harper Starr, first Secretary of the Treasury for the Republic of Texas. Stamp has bled faintly onto the title page, overall, very good. Adams, Six-Guns 2374: “Contains a chapter on the Jaybird-Woodpecker feud and other lawlessness.” Recounts the founding and evolution of Fort Bend County with material on the Old Three Hundred and other early settlers, Indian encounters, the community of Oyster Creek, its role in the Revolution, lawlessness, ranching, etc. There is much information on the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. The appendices contain rosters for Terry’s Texas Rangers and other units as well as a list of Mexican grants in Fort Bend County after 1824. Scarce in the first edition.