300 Years in Victoria County

Victoria, Texas: The Victoria Advocate Publishing Co., 1968 Book. Illus. by Jones, Tom. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. [16], 649pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, portraits; drawings by Tom Jones. Bibliographical notes, index. Green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket artwork by Tom Jones; slight jacket wear to spine ends, less so to corners, spine slightly faded). History of the "cradle" of Texas, Victoria and Victoria County, formed by the Republic of Texas in 1836 and named after Guadalupe Victoria, the first President of Mexico. The book is divided into seven sections: 1) the Cradle of Texas History, 1685-1820, 2) the Road to Independence, 1821-1842, 3) Adversity and Prosperity, 1842- 1860, 4) Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1875, 5) Hide and Horn, 1875-1890, 6) Looking Back, 7) the Twentieth Century..