A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A.D. 1879. : Embracing the periods of missions, colonization, the revolution, the republic, and the state; also, a topographical description of the country ... together with its Indian tribes and their wars, and biographical sketches of hundreds of its leading historical characters. Also, a list of the countries, with historical and topical notes, and descriptions of the public institutions of the state.