Texas History on Auction

From Jan. 12, 2009, Houston Chronicle.

Two items of special interest to historians were going to auction.

One was an 8 by 10-inch broadside plea from Col. William Travis for volunteers at the Alamo, dated Match 3, 1836. However, by the time it arrived at the Texas Constitutional Convention, March 6th, it as already too late as the Alamo fell that day.

The Texas Confederate Museum of the UDC got ot in 1935 from a member whose grandfather, Abram W. Hill was likely the original recipient.

The other item was the 249-page diary of Joseph Pulsifer (1832-1836) and has copies of letters he sent and received. He was a founder of Beaumont.

Now, That's Some Real History! --Cooter