Over the years I read all the secondary historical sources I could find about Bandera County. In the 1990s I began a survey of the materials in the Texas State Archives for anything related to Bandera County. This survey included the Adjutant General records and the Governor records from the 1850s to the 1890s. During this time, I began writing articles for the county's historical (sometimes) quarterly, The Bandera County Historian.