TRAVIS, WILLIAM BARRET, Texas Ranger . Autograph document signed twice ("W. Barret Travis" and "W. B. Travis") as Lieutenant Colonel, Republic of Texas Army, n.p., 5 October 1835 and 20 January 1836. 2 pages, small oblong 4to, 160 x 200 mm. (6¼ x 7 7/8 in.), lightly browned, left margin chipped . Rare. COLONEL TRAVIS, EN ROUTE TO THE ALAMO A vivid document from a pivotal time in Texas' history. Leading a small party of Texans to Gonzalez, where the first battle of the Texas Revolution was being fought, William Barret Travis issues a voucher to pay "Mrs. Kenner...$30.00...[for] 1 horse pressed by J. B. Johnson [into]...service..." On the verso, Travis certifies the previous promissory note while traveling to the Alamo: "This may certify that the within horse was pressed...& delivered to me..." Two weeks after affixing his second signature to this document, the 27-year-old Travis and his party of 25 men reached the Alamo. On February 23rd, Santa Anna's army arrived. Travis's letters and documents are quite rare: since 1960 only four are recorded at auction by American Book Prices Current (the most recent an 1835 letter, sold at Christie's, 17 May 1996, lot 313 $18,000).
TRAVIS, WILLIAM BARRET, Texas Ranger . Autograph document signed twice ("W. Barret Travis" and "W. B. Travis") as Lieutenant Colonel, Republic of Texas Army, n.p., 5 October 1835 and 20 January 1836. 2 pages, small oblong 4to, 160 x 200 mm. (6¼ x 7 7/8 in.), lightly browned, left margin chipped . Rare. COLONEL TRAVIS, EN ROUTE TO THE ALAMO A vivid document from a pivotal time in Texas' history. Leading a small party of Texans to Gonzalez, where the first battle of the Texas Revolution was being fought, William Barret Travis issues a voucher to pay "Mrs. Kenner...$30.00...[for] 1 horse pressed by J. B. Johnson [into]...service..." On the verso, Travis certifies the previous promissory note while traveling to the Alamo: "This may certify that the within horse was pressed...& delivered to me..." Two weeks after affixing his second signature to this document, the 27-year-old Travis and his party of 25 men reached the Alamo. On February 23rd, Santa Anna's army arrived. Travis's letters and documents are quite rare: since 1960 only four are recorded at auction by American Book Prices Current (the most recent an 1835 letter, sold at Christie's, 17 May 1996, lot 313 $18,000).
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