The area around Caldwell County was first inhabited by the Paleo-Indians Hunter-gatherers and later Tonkawa, Karankawa and Comanche. The Green DeWitt petition for a land grant established a colony in Texas and by 1839, the first settlers came into the area. On 7 August 1848, the county was established from Bastrop and Gonzales counties and named for Matthew Caldwell, "Old Paint", who was a soldier and statesman as well as a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a Commander of the Texas Rangers. In this volume, you will find a brief history of Southwest Texas and a collection of biographical sketches of persons living here in 1890 when the original was published.
Goodspeed Publishing Company
(1890), 2016, 8.5" x 11", paper, full name index, 76 pp.
ISBN: 9780788484056
110-TX0033
