Excerpt from the Autobiography of James Norman Smith (January, 1850)

1816-1860, Autobiographies & Biographies, Texas, University of Texas at Arlington

“When I told him about the few professors of religion [in Texas, Joseph Brown] became greatly excited and had the jerks…. I told him that if he did not stop his whooping that I would get in the other bed so he promised to be quiet but we quit the subject of religion in the new settlement….”