Handbook of Texas Online: Austin, Stephen Fuller - Biography of the leader of the first successful Anglo-American colony in Texas. - http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/AA/fau14.html
Texas Treasures - Stephen F. Austin - Texas State Library - Biography plus photographs and text of letters written by Austin in his role as empresario of his colony. - http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/giants/austin/austin-01.html