1 The biographical information on Darden comes from these sources: Colorado Citizen, April 24, 1858, June 2, 1881, July 7, 1881, January 12, 1882, November 9, 1882, December 7, 1882, January 4, 1883, March 8, 1883; Weimar Mercury, January 11, 1890; Texas Monument, March 5, 1851, June 4, 1851, September 22, 1852; Paul Carl Boethel, Colonel Amasa Turner The Gentleman from Lavaca (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1963), pp. 5-6; Eighth Census of the United States (1860) Schedule 1, Colorado County, Texas; Hans Peter Nielsen Gammel, comp., The Laws of Texas 1822-1897 (Austin: The Gammel Book Company, 1898), vol. 9, p. 518; Texas Prairie Flower, vol. 2, no. 2, August 1883, p. 89; Colorado County Deed Records, Book U, p. 349, Book Z, p. 41; Colorado County Probate Records, Minute Book I, p. 446, File No. 1143: Fannie A. D. Darden; Darden Family File, Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library; and from her own autobiographical writings, cited herein. Flachmeier's biographical sketch appears in Evelyn M. Carrington, ed., Women in Early Texas (Austin: Jenkins, 1975. Reprint. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994), p. 62. See also The New Handbook of Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996), vol. 2, p. 510.

2 Samuel Houston Dixon, ed., Poets and Poetry of Texas (Austin: Sam H. Dixon & Co., 1885), p. 48.

3. For more on Texas Prairie Flower, and the other magazine by which Darden was briefly employed, American Sketch Book, see Imogene Bentley Dickey, Early Literary Magazines of Texas (Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1970), pp. 11-13, 15-16.