References

Primary Sources

  • Green DeWitt letters
  • Sarah Seely proposal for grant to a league of land
  • Anecdotes from oral histories, family documents, newspaper records
  • The Gonzales Inquirer

Bibliography

  • Barker, Eugene. The Life of Stephen F. Austin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1926.
  • Bedichek, Roy. Karánkaway Country. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1950.
  • Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. Austin: L.E. Daniel, 1880.
  • DeWitt, Edna. “Lest We Forget.” The Gonzales Inquirer. n.d.
  • Frenzel, Victoria Eberle. Hope, Heartbreak, Heroes. Gonzales, TX: self-published, 2008.
  • Gonzales County History. Gonzales, TX: The Gonzales County Historical Commission, 1986.
  • Harrigan, Stephen. The Gates of the Alamo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
  • James, Marquis. The Raven. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1929.
  • Kendall, Dorothy Steinbomer, Carmen Perry, and Theodore Gentilz. Gentilz: Artist of the Old Southwest. The Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation, No. 6. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974.
  • Lindley, Thomas. Alamo Traces. Lanham, MD: Republic of Texas Press, 2003.
  • Lukes, Edward A. DeWitt Colony of Texas. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1976.
  • Moehring, Sharon Anne Dobyns, and John A. Moehring. The Gonzales Connection: The History and Genealogy of the DeWitt and Jones Families. Victoria, B.C., Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2004.
  • Rather, Ethel Zivley. “DeWitt’s Colony.” The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Society 8, no. 2 (October 1904). (Since 1912, known as The Southwestern Historical Quarterly.)

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