The 'Old Three Hundred' — and the thirty thousand who followed them into Mexican Texas.
Settler-Mexican friction over slavery and federalism exploded into the Texas Revolution of 1835-36.
The cotton-and-slavery economy that drove Anglo settlement of Mexican Texas (broad context).
Slavery and labor across the Mexican north in this period (broad regional context).
Standard scholarly biography of Austin, covering the founding and development of the colony from the 1821 land grant through the Texas Revolution of 1835-36.