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; its rivers, mountains, soils, minerals, agricultural products, live stock, population, resources, wealth, etc.; together with its Indian tribes and their wars, and biographical sketches of hundreds of its leading historical characters. Also, a list of the counties, with historical and topical notes, and descriptions of the public institutions of the state, asylums, penitentiary, schools, churches, railroads, etc. /