Marilyn Mcadams Sibley

Marilyn McAdams Sibley's study of George W. Brackenridge is the first biography of an important and, for his time, unusual Texan. It presents new material concerning the Mexican cotton trade during the Civil War, on the beginnings of banking in Texas, and on higher education in Texas.

The story of the growth of an unlikely inland port situated at a "tent city" that many Texans thought would die young.

An examination of particular aspects of early Texas life: the Indians, slavery, immigration, law enforcement, and the individualistic character of the people, all as seen through the eyes of traveler-writers.