Texas Troubles
Comprehensive List of all the Texas Trouble Documents
Meeting of the Denton County Vigilante Committee, July 1860
The Burning of Downtown Dallas, July 8, 1860
Daily Picayune, August 19, 1860
Suspicious Characters
Letter from Dallas to
State Gazette
You arrived in Dallas just in time to witness the following hanging
Interview of a neighbor of Crill Miller, farmer who had his barn burned to the ground
Letter from Charles C. Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald
Slaves Arrested
Plot Revealed
You have been caught asking too many questions
Comments from Out of State Newspapers
Bailey Letter found in Fort Worth
Crisis at Hand
Meeting of people of Tarrant County, September 11, 1860, and Resolutions Adopted
Lynching of William H. Crawford
Letter from Benjamin Bowman about the Troubles
Hanging in Gilmer
Hangings at Tennessee Colony
Are you of Northern Birth?
Clerk Hanged in Waxahachie
Spontaneous Combustion of “Prairies Matches”
Warning that Plot is True
Poison determined to be harmless preparation
Reminiscences about the Troubles
Incendiary Plan
Poisoning of Water Source
Henderson Fire
Finding of the Henderson Vigilance Committee
Hanging in Georgetown
Warning from correspondent of the New York
Herald
You are picked up and questioned along with another man traveling
You meet a fellow traveler who warns you of the dangers of traveling through the state
Paris
Press
argues that plot doesn’t exist
Letter from Congressman John H. Reagan about the Troubles
Insurrection in Rusk
Report from Chapel Hill
Missing Marshall Woman Found
Plot Politically Motivated?
Letter from Special Correspondent of the
Picayune
from Richmond, TX
Foiled Insurrection
Are the fires a conspiracy to sway voters?
Stories of fires exaggerated
Houston’s Speech claiming that the Plot was put on for Political Purposes
State Gazette
Rebukes Houston’s Charge of Political Aggravation
Political Conspiracy?
Review of Assignment
Texas State Gazette
- Background Information
Map of Texas Counties
Map of Black Slaves as a Percentage of Total Population, 1860
Bibliography