PlumWoke# Digital Archive
The events documented in this exhibition did not happen in the absence of evidence. They left a paper trail: land acts, treaty articles, military dispatches, diplomatic letters, and memoir accounts — the accumulated documentary record of a decade in which one society systematically dismantled the territorial sovereignty of another.
This archive assembles that record. Every document here was produced by the people who participated in these events — Comanche chiefs, Republic presidents, frontier soldiers, colonization commissioners, and settler memoirists. Read together, they constitute not just evidence of what happened, but evidence of how
the structure worked.
Browse by collection below, or search across all holdings.
Documents
Original sources: treaties, land acts, military dispatches, diplomatic letters, and memoir accounts. From the Council House to Tehuacana Creek, the structure left a paper trail.
Gallery
Period images,manuscript pages, artifact photographs, and document facsimiles from institutions across Texas.
The visual record of microhistory as global structure.
Interactive Maps
Annotated historical maps tracing the movement of the frontier line, the colonial grant system, and the contested boundary claims of the Republic and Comancheria. Includes interactive timelapse, 1835–1850.
Postcolonial Theory Glossary
Key terms from the exhibition — settler
colonialism, logic of elimination, rabble-state
convergence, racial geography, and more —with full scholarly definitions and sources.
Biographic Profiles
Biographical profiles — Comanche chiefs,
Republic presidents, military commanders,
colonization agents, and settler memoirists. The people who made this history, and the people it was made upon
Documentary Videos
A six-part documentary tracing the construction of settler-colonial Texas — from the 1836 land laws to the Treaty of Tehuacana Creek — through primary sources, archival footage, and scholarly analysis. Each episode follows one phase of the structure. Watch in sequence or enter at any point.
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