32. Three bills of sale from New York merchants for goods purchased by C.P. Green & Co. are to be found in the Green Papers: G. Cleland Co., April 15, 1837; Wells, Vandervoort and Co., April 22, 1837, and Seneca Stewart, April 22, 1837. Feris A. Bass and B.R. Brunson, eds., Fragile Empires, 38.

     33. Bass and Brunson, eds., Fragile Empires, 101, 112.

     34. William Ransom Hogan, The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History, 131; The Spirit of the Times, March 28, 1840, April 4, 1840.

     35. De Saligny to Guizot, February 16, 1841, Nancy Nichols Barker, ed., The French Legation in Texas 1:203.

     36. Roberts to Hamilton, July 5, 1841, George P. Garrison, ed., Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas 2(2), Part 3: 941; Mayfield to Lamar, April 6, 1841, Gulick, ed., Lamar Papers 3:520-521.

     37. Bass and Brunson, eds., Fragile Empires, 129.

     38. John H. Jenkins, "The Thermopylae Quotation," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94:303-304; Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 102-103.

     39. Bass and Brunson, eds., Fragile Empires, 203, 185.

     40. Joseph D. McCutchan, Mier Expedition Diary, 35.

     41. Sam W. Haynes, Soldiers of Misfortune, 32-33, 46.

     42. Gleason to Gleason, May 4, 1843, Friend, ed., "Sidelights and Supplements on the Perote Prisoners," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 69:92.

     43. Samuel H. Walker, Samuel Walker's Account of the Mier Expedition, 11.

     44. Green, Reply [of] Gen. Green, 4.

     45. Gammel, Laws of Texas 2:17, 67-68, 116-117.

     46. Green, Recollections and Reflections, 23.

     47. For an examination of the literary merits of the various chroniclers of the Mier Expedition, see James A. Day's Black Beans and Goose Quills.

     48. Northern Standard, January 14, 1846.

     49. United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 24(January 1849):35.

     50. American Whig Review 2 (1845):543.

     51. All quotations cited in this paragraph are taken from the Telegraph and Texas Register, December 10, 1845.

     52. "A Speech Made at the Methodist Church," Houston, December 17, 1845, Williams and Barker, Houston Writings 4:435.

     53. Houston to Stuart, December 21, 1845, ibid. 4:441.

     54. Reinhardt, "Public Career", 126-127; Green, Recollections and Reflections, 59-60.

     55. "To The Electors of the Western Congressional District of the State of Texas," October 25, 1845, Green Papers.

     56. Articles of Agreement signed by Green, John C. McLemore, and Seymour Bonner, January 15, 1849, Green Papers.

     57. Erwin G. Gudde, California Gold Camps, 296; Major Edwin A. Sherman, "Sherman Was There; the Recollections of Major Edwin A. Sherman," California Historical Society Quarterly 23:351-352.

     58. Eastland to Green, March 31, 1850, Green Papers.

     59. Eastland to Green, January 22, 1850; same to same, February 4, 1850; same to same, February 21, 1850; Percy(?) to Green, July 22, 1850, ibid.

     60. "Letter of General T.J. Green Concerning Indian Affairs," May 25, 1850, Journals of the Legislature of the State of California, Second Session, 764-766.

     61. Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, 315-316.

     62. Elisha Oscar Crosby, Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby, 58-59.

     63. Ibid., 59-60.