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Texas rangers, ranchers, and realtors : James Hughes Callahan and the Day family in the Guadalupe River Basin /

The lives of James Hughes Callahan, Sarah Medissa Day, and their extended families become a social history of nineteenth-century Texas during the days of the Revolution, the Republic and early statehood.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonald, Thomas O., 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Callahan, James > (James Hughes), > 1812-1856.
Day, Sarah Medissa, > 1822-1857.
Day family.
Guadalupe River Watershed (Tex.) > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The Callahan Family in North Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1836
  • The Georgia Battalion, 1835-1836: "Texas needed soldiers, not resolutions"
  • The Families of Johnson and Sarah Day, 1794-1836: "Brother Day denied the charge"
  • The Day Families from Gonzales to Seguin, 1837-1839: "As a citizen and representative"
  • The Ranger Years, 1840-1841: "Avenging sword"
  • The Ranger Years, 1842-1843: "Capt Calleghan Cooley ... called on the men not to be excited"
  • Sarah Hembree Day's Extended Family, 1837-1849: "Good wife"
  • From Seguin to Prairie Lea, 1843-1853: "Field of civilization"
  • Brazoria County, 1837, to Rio Blanco, 1853: "All are land-hunting"
  • Erskine Cattle Drive to California, 1854: "The cattle stompeded last night"
  • Pittsburg Land Company, 1853-1856: "Comfortable home at a fair price"
  • The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Context: "¡Pero es tan solo un río!"
  • The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Preparation: "Follow them up and chastize them wherever they may be found"
  • The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Plan: "We intend to hunt up the Lipans in particular"
  • The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Skirmishes: "We whipped them, four to one"
  • The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Repercussions: "A vast deal of magniloquent indignation"
  • The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Historical Perspective: "Use my creative imagination only to fill in the gaps"
  • The Blassingame-Callahan Affair, 1856: "Oh, Lord"
  • Blassingame-Callahan Affair Repercussions, 1856-1860: "Made an assault with a sixshooter"
  • Blassingame-Callahan Affair Repercussions, 1857-1867: "Disturbed by impolite conduct"
  • Probate, 1856-1873: "Estate of James H. Callahan, deceased"
  • Orphans, September 1856-April 1926: "Loved and respected"
  • Destinies, 1856-2012: "This is it"
  • Appendix: San Antonio Committee on Slave Recovery letter to Emilio Langberg