James, Vinton Lee. Frontier and Pioneer Recollections of Early Days in San Antonio and West Texas. Artes Gráficas, San Antonio, TX, 1938.

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Description: 8vo. 210pp. Brown cloth textured in a leather pattern, title embossed on spine and upper board. Illustrated. A fine copy. The book is broken up into four parts: "John James, Pioneer;" "Personal Recollections of Vinton Lee James;" "San Antonio;" and "Western Texas." The author was born in San Antonio in 1858, and shares a wealth of personal information of his early life in that city and its environs. His father, John James, was a highly regarded pioneer surveyor of Texas during the Republic and early statehood. A scarce item, with much primary source material on the development of Bexar County and the outlying Texas Hill Country. Adams Herd 1149. Adams Six-Guns 1157. .

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