Suggested Reading

There’s been a lot published about the Texas Navy over the years. The Texas Navy Association has an exhaustive bibliography online (PDF), an historigraphical survey of the Texas Navy (PDF), along with many articles, essays and transcripts of historical documents here.

For folks just beginning their study of the subject, there are several works that the Hawkins Squadron recommends as a starting point that deal with different aspects of the Texas Navy and the Republic of Texas:

The Texas Navy

Alexander Dienst, The Navy of the Republic of Texas, 1835-1846 (Temple, Texas, 1909). Click here to read or download as PDF.

Jim Dan Hill, The Texas Navy: In Forgotten Battles and Shirtsleeve Diplomacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Jonathan W. Jordan, Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

John Powers, The First Texas Navy (Austin: Woodmont Books, 2006). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Tom Henderson Wells, Commodore Moore and the Texas Navy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1960). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

The Texas Revolution and Republic

James P. Bevill, The Paper Republic: The Struggle for Money, Credit and Independence in the Republic of Texas (Bright Sky Press, 2010). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

James L. Haley, Sam Houston (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Stephen L. Hardin, Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Stephen L. Moore, Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign (Dallas: Republic of Texas Press, 2004). Click here for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.