Part 8, Note 76

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Colorado Citizen, May 11, 1871, October 5, 1871, October 12, 1871, November 2, 1871, January 18, 1872, February 15, 1872, February 29, 1872; "Reminiscences of Mrs. F. G. Mahon," Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 45-46; Dewey Homer Brown, The History of Education in Columbus, Colorado County, Texas (Master's thesis, Sul Ross State Teachers College, 1942), p. 68. Though public schools were not popular with the Colorado Citizen, the newspaper did find it proper to praise new history textbooks which were adopted, complaining that the old ones taught "that the Southern people were heathens, murderers, and traitors" (see Colorado Citizen, November 30, 1871).