Historical Cookbooks

The Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie

Voices from Colonial America - Texas 1527 - 1836

Southern Living - 1998 Annual Recipes

Hipanic Texas - A Historical Guide

Tales of Old-Time Texas by J-Frank Dobie

The Story of The Texas Rangers by Walter Prescott Webb

Seeds of a Nation by Charles George and Linda George

Sure Enough, How Come? by F.W.van Emden - Illustrated by Leslie Turner

Let There Be Towns by Gilbert R. Cruz

Nation of Nations - A Concise Narrative of the American Republic

The Longhorns by J. Frank Dobie

Historical Cookbooks

The mission of Texas Historical Press is to present the beginning of Texas. We specialize in its very earliest days. European Texas was begun in far Eastern Texas beginning near the Neches River and traveling eastward into Present Louisiana to a point about 16 miles west of Nachitoches at a small stream called Rio Hondo—this portion of present Louisiana was part of Spanish East Texas and was the home of the first capital of Texas.

Spaniards were the first Europeans to settle all this area and were the first true, native born Texans. There decendents are still there. Aside from the indigineous Caddoan Indians early pioneers included blacks (who were among the very first), Mexicans, Anglo's, Germans and assorted others. The history of a people can be studied through their foods—what they harvested from the wild, planted, ate and how they prepared their foods. Our authentic historical cookbooks that are offered by Texas Historical Press are designed to study the races that inhabited East Texas. These are sought after by collectors from all over the United States. They make outstanding gifts.

Give Us This Day, Our Daily Bread - A very unique and unusual cookbook, researched and compiled by high school students, years ago, in a very rural community of deep East Texas.

Old East Texas Colonial Spanish Pioneer Cookbook, The Founders of European Texas - This is an absolutely one-of-a-kind book on the history and foods of the Spanish Hidalgos (king's children) who were sent into deep East Texas to settle it for their Spanish king.

Tejas Indian Cookbook - Rare East Texas Indian recipes collected from letters and diaries and from the descendents of these Indians, now in Oklahoma.

The First Cactus Cookbook - Modern American chefs are just now beginning to present delicious dishes made from native cactus. The First Cactus Cookbook gives many recipes from entrees to drinks.

How to Cook Cookbook - This is a very unusual book that is for those who wish to learn how to become gourmet cooks, run their homes and oversee their families health.

North of the Border - This is a historical cookbook that covers the period when Mexico controlled Texas. Our historical cookbooks are more than cookbooks, they are also a history.

The First East Texas Spanish Cookbook - This is another of our historical cookbooks that includes much more than recipes. It covers the period when Spain sent the fist European immigrants into East Texas to build missions and communities.

Foods of the Tejas/Hasini and Other Caddoan Indians - This book is among our historical cookbooks that covers the races that lived in Eastern Texas. The Caddoan Indians were a large group that lived between Dallas, Texas and the Red River in Louisiana.

The East Texas Christmas Story Cookbook - Christmas and fruitcakes were not part of the early East Texas pioneers' Christmas. These came later, around 1870. Before this time their Christmas's were simple.

Large Books

The Indians Who Named Texas - Vol. I

A Saint Among Us - Vol. II

The Hidalgos - Vol. III

El Peregrino

In Search of a Saint

The Firsts of Everything in the Early Days of East Texas

Medium Size Books

The Cordova Rebellion

The Buried Treasures of Old East Texas

Old Time East Texas Saloons