Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 2 (October 2016)

Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 120, No. 2 (October 2016).

This issue includes historical scholarship and documentary material concerning arts and culture, civil war, mexican texas and borderlands, and military history.

In this issue:

• "They are Hauling off Bits of Texas": James E. Pearce and the Effort to Establish a State Museum — Lynn Denton
• Representative Men: The Post-Civil War Political Struggle over Texas’s Commissioners to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition — Jack Noe
• Margaret Fallon (Peggy) Palmer: A Portrait of Sam Rayburn’s "Lady Friend" — Anthony Champagne and Reed Penney
• The Origins of the African-Born Population of Antebellum Texas: A Research Note — Sean M. Kelley and Henry B. Lovejoy

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.