Books from the following list may be found in your local library and may be helpful in your research. They are not necessarily to be found in the Harrison County Research Library, and there is no one available to do any lookups in them.

• Carefoot, Jean. Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives, A. Austin: Texas State Library, 1984. 

• Fehrenbach, T.H. Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1968. 

• Heskett, Michael, compiler. Texas County Records: A Guide to the Holdings of Local Records Division. Austin: Texas State Library, 1990. 

• Hogan, William Ransom. The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. 

• Jenkins, John H. Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1988. 

• Kennedy, Imogene Kinard and J. Leon Kennedy. Genealogical Records in T*E*X*A*S. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987. 

• McDowell, Catherine. A Guide to the Texana Holdings of the Texas History Library of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. San Antonio: DRT, 1978. 

• McLean, Malcolm D., ed. Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in TX Vol 1: 1788-1822. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1974. [Many Vols of this collection have been published.] 

• Miller, Thomas Lloyd . The Public Lands of Texas 1519-1970. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1972.

•  Morris, Louise (Mrs. Harry Joseph). Citizens of the Republic of Texas. Dallas: Texas State Genealogical Society, 1978 

• Mueller-Wille, Christopher, director. Roads of Texas. Fredericksburg: Shearer Publishing, 1988. 

• Muir, Andrew Forest, ed. (anonymous narrative) Texas in 1837. Austin: Univ of TX Press, 1958. 

• Pearson, Mary, Director, et al. Inventory of County Records [Texas] Denton County. Austin: NTSU/Texas Archives, 1975. [In the early 1970s the state legislature ordered the compiling of an index for each county in Texas. However, they did not adequately fund it, so only a small part of the counties were indexed. Most of them are within 200 miles from Dallas/Ft. Worth.] 

• Ramos, Mary G., ed. 1996-1997 Texas Almanac. Dallas: Dallas Morning News, 1995. 

• Steely, Skipper. Combined 1850 Census of Lamar and Red River Counties, Texas. Paris: Wright Press, 1985. 

• Stephens, A. Ray and William M. Holmes. Historical Atlas of Texas. Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1989. 

• Texas General Land Office. Texas Land Titles: Vol. 1-8 plus supplements. Austin: General Land Office, 1941. [This set is the most complete list of original land entries in Texas. Most are 19th century but others come up into the 20th century. These are available from the GLO on microfilm.] ____________________. Texas Land Titles: Vol. 1-A (extreme NE Texas Counties). Paris: Wright Press. [This book contains only the extreme NE counties found in Vol. 1 of Texas Land Titles compiled by Bascom Giles while he was Land Commissioner.] _____________________. The GLO has original land ownership maps for each county in Texas. They sell for about $15.OO EACH. Contact the GLO in Austin for them. 

• Thetford, Margaret Ann and Jeanne Tabb. Bishop Garrett's Journal, Texas, 1875-1890. Dallas: Thetford and Tabb. 1987. 

• Thorndale, William and William Dollarhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses 1790-1920. Baltimore: GPC, 1987. 

• Tyler, Ron, ed-in-chief. New Handbook of Texas, The. (6 vols., 1996) Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. 

• Wallace, Ernest. Charles DeMorse: Pioneer Statesman and Father of Texas Journalism. Paris: Wright Press, 1985. 

• Webb, Walter Prescott, ed-in-Chief. Handbook of Texas, The. (2 vols; + supplement, 1976) Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1952. 

• White, Gifford . 1840 Citizens of Texas: Vol. 2, Tax Rolls. Austin: Gifford White, 1984. 

• ____________. Character Certificates in the General Land Office of Texas. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985. 

• ____________. Scholastic Census, 1854-1856. St. Louis, Mo. : Ingmire Publications, c. 1986. 

• Young , Louise Myers. Peters Colonists: Their Descendants and Others, Vol. I. Denton: Myers, 1972.

•  __________________. Peters Colonists: Their Descendants and Others, Vol. II. Denton: Myers, 1973.