Part 4, Note 47

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Texas Monument, January 15, 1851, February 5, 1851, March 12, 1851, March 26, 1851, April 2, 1851, April 16, 1851, April 23, 1851, May 7, 1851, May 14, 1851, May 21, 1851, August 27, 1851, September 3, 1851, December 17, 1851; Texas State Gazette, April 12, 1851. See also Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register, March 14, 1851, March 28, 1851, wherein the boat is referred to as the Colorado Ranger. The March 28 edition also contains a story that indicates that the flatboat the Colorado passed on its upriver voyage in March had been built and loaded with cotton in Bastrop.