Chapters: Liberty Elm; Nacogdoches: name and traditions; Gil Y'Barbo; Mounds; Old Stone Fort; Human bones found at old Bacey place; Church at Stone Fort Bank site; Old San Antonio Road; Old Spanish Missions; Old North Church; W. A. Skillern; Linn Flat Trouble; James R. Arnold's Company; Silk Hats; Nacogdoches Companies in Confederate Army; Helena Rusk; Old Michelli Crossing; Letter from Judge P. F. Edwards (and Sam Houston's hat); Old Mexican Customs; The Nacogdoches Courthouses; John W. (Dick) Johnson; Spanish Names; Old San Antonio Road; Adventure of "Claude Riviere"; Captain Clark's Company; Old houses in Nacogdoches; Foreign-born citizens of Nacogdoches; The Sentinel and the Haltoms; Laura Fair; Letters to J. R. Gray; H. C. Fuller to J. E. Mayfield Letters re: Peter Ellis Bean; J. E. Mayfield to G. L. Crocket