KINNEY COUNTY - 125 YEARS OF GROWTH: 1852 - 1977. de Kinney County Historical Commission - 1978

Brackettville: Kinney County Historical Commission, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. SIGNED by Else Sauer with presentation. Maps, historic photographs, family port., 159pp., index, + an additional 48pp. reprint of 1907 complete bookletKINNEY COUNTY: Bracketville, Spofford, Ft. Clark by Charles Kartes, plus advertisements. 4to pictorial white and beige leatherette.

Else Sauer Chairman, includes Beales Colony, Gen. Robert E. Lee's headquarters, descendants of James Burn Ballantyne, Windus Family Tree, and Veltmann Family, Hernddon Ranch and many other families and ranch histories. The Rio Grande Colony by C.C. Rister, onyx mines, Los Moras Stage Line, Los Moras Springs, schools, churches, list of graduates from Brackettville H.S. 1886-1976, businesses, The Black Watch of Texas almost forgotten, these Seminole Negro Indian Scouts are living in peace on the border, quaint feast and burial rites still observed- by Mary Louise Thompson.