Ty Cashion Collection

Biographical Note

Robert "Ty" Cashion, PhD, is Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of several books, including Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (2006), The New Frontier: A Contemporary History of Fort Worth and Tarrant County (2006), and co-editor of The Human Tradition in Texas (2001). His research interests include the American West, Texas, social history, and the Spanish borderlands. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and served on the editorial board of Sound Historian: The Oral History Journal of Texas. Autographed copies of his books can be found in the Susan Murrin Pritchett Collection.

Scope and Contents

Materials in this collection include books and transcriptions. The Jonathan Hamilton Baker diary, for which Cashion produced a transcription, is part of the Jonathan Hamilton Baker Collection.

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

• The New Frontier: A Contemporary History of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Ty Cashion, Historical Publishing Network, 2006
• The Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, 1825-1916, vol. I-V, eds. Dorman H. Winfrey and James M. Day, Texas State Historical Association, 1995
• Transcription of the Jonathan Hamilton Baker Diary, 1858-1862, circa 2010
• War of 1812 Veterans in Texas, Mary Smith Fay, Southern Historical Press, 1979