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Bell, Verner Lee. Memories of Peter Tumlinson Bell, 1869-1956. Saint Jo,
Texas: S.J.T. Printing Co., 1980.
Brune, Gunnar. Springs of Texas. Fort Worth: Branch-Smith, 1981.
The Carrizo Springs Javelin , Carrizo Springs, Texas (newspaper articles from
1895-1930)
"A Coming Metropolis, Half Way Here" (December 23, 1909)
"Jourdanton and Poteet" (August 11, 1910)
"Hot Times at the Meeting" (August 11, 1910)
"A Campaign Dodge" (editorial, August 11, 1910)
"Question of Prematurity" (August 18, 1910)
"More Court House Needed" (August 25, 1910)
"A Few Facts and Figures" (August 25, 1910)
"And Pleasanton Admits It Too" (September 8, 1910)
"We Tax Payers Help ‘Em Out" (September 8, 1910)
"Majority Vote Will Move It" (September 8, 1910)
"County Seat Question Up" (March 30, 1911)
"All Aboard for Jourdanton" (May 11, 1911)
"Prepare New Court House" (June 22, 1911)
"Dimmit County Bicentennial Celebration" (May 6, 1976)
Citizens State Bank. Citizens State Bank: Our First Fifty Years of Dedicated
Service. Privately printed, 1974.
Cook, Fred, ed. Dimmit County Almanac and Guide. Amarillo: P&H Publishing Co.,
c.1978.
Dimmit County. Dimmit County Commissioners Minutes (various dates between 1881
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manuscript (c. 1995).
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Courthouse for a Master Plan
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Hall, Georgie Meredith. Life of R.T. Hall. Carrizo Springs: Willems Press, 1980.
Leffler, John. "Carrizo Springs," in The New Handbook of Texas. Austin: Texas
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San Antonio Express, San Antonio, Texas (various issues of the newspaper)
"Alfred Giles Returns from Carrizo Springs…" (November 13, 1883)
"New Courthouse is Constructed for Dimmit County" (June 21, 1927)
"Carrizo springs: Hub of the Winter" Garden District" (June 21, 1927)
"Our Texas Towns: Carrizo Springs" (October 5, 1952)
Taylor, Paul. "Historical Note on Dimmit County, Texas." Southwestern
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Carrizo Springs Javelin, 1980 (souvenir edition of The Javelin).
Tidwell, Laura. Dimmit County Mesquite Roots. Austin: Wind River Press, 1984.
Williams, Crystal. "A History of Dimmit County." M.A. thesis, Sul Ross
University, 1959.
Alfred Giles Co., Architects View Book, 1898-1920. privately published,
c.1920.
Biographical files for Alfred Giles, The Drury B. Alexander Architectural
Archives, The University of Texas at Austin
Chabot, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio. San Antonio: Yanaguana
Society, 1937.
Jutson, Mary Carolyn Hollers. Alfred Giles: An English Architect in Texas and
Mexico. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1972.
Jutson, Mary Carolyn Hollers. "Report on San Antonio Architects and Their Work,
1886-1910." unpublished manuscript on file in The Drury B. Alexander
Architectural Archives, The University of Texas at Austin, 1970.
List of Architects and Classified Directory of First Hands in the Building
Trades. Holyoke, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan and Company, 1885.
Moursand, John. Blanco County History. Burnet: Nortex Press, 1979.
Long, Christopher. "Henry Truman Phelps," in The New Handbook of Texas.
Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996
Biographical files for Henry Phelps, The Drury B. Alexander Architectural
Archives, The University of Texas at Austin
Anderson Jr., Garland Sadler. "The Courthouse Square: Six Case Studies in
Texas: Evolution, Analysis and Projections." M.S. Thesis, University of Texas at
Austin, 1968.
Coursey, Clark. Courthouses of Texas. Brownwood: Banner Printing, 1962.
Goeldner, Paul. "Temples of Justice: 19th Century County Courthouses in the
Midwest and Texas." Ph.D dissertation, Columbia University, 1970.
Henry, Jay. Architecture in Texas, 1895-1945. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1993.
Kelsey, Mavis and Donald Dyal. The Courthouses of Texas: A Guide. College
Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.
Morgan, Bill. Old Friends: Great Texas Courthouses. Fort Worth: Landmark
Publishing Inc., 1999.
Pare, Richard. Court House: A Photographic Document. New York: Horizon Press,
1978.
Price, Edward. "The Central Courthouse Square in the American County Seat." The
Geographical Review vol. 58 no. 1 (January 1968): 29-60.
Robinson, Willard and John Ferguson. "Dimmit County Courthouse," National
Register of Historic Places nomination, (1978, 1984), Texas Historical
Commission files, Austin, Texas.
Robinson, Willard. Gone From Texas. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1982.
Robinson, Willard. The People’s Architecture. Austin: Texas State Historical
Association, 1983.
Robinson, Willard. "The Public Square as a Determinant of Courthouse Form in
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Robinson, Willard. Texas Public Buildings of the Nineteenth Century. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1974.
Santos, Sylvia Ann. Courthouses of Bexar County. San Antonio, Bexar County
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GLA Press, 1984.
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