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Show Brigham Young library purchases valuable collection of Texas books BYU includes 23 books which are listed in Graff's Texas Rarities, Rar-ities, and 21 of them are first-edition first-edition prints. In addition, some of the books are printed in the German and Spanish languages. One, "Der Auswan-derer Auswan-derer Nach Texas," is so rare that many researchers have not been able to find another copy in the world. Mr. Rosenstock, former owner own-er of the set, is a well-known collector of rare books. With headquarters in Denver, he has been gathering material on Texas history for the past 30 years. Dr. Lyman Tyler, director of BYU libraries, said Mr. Rosen-stock Rosen-stock has donated many books to the libray in the past several sev-eral years. The acquisition of the collection should make the BYU Library one of the top two or three in the nation for Texas research materials. Because of early Mormon interest in-terest in Texas, the Brigham Young University Library has purchased a valuable collection of Texas research books from Fred Rosenstock, authority on Western American history. The set of about 1,000 volumes vol-umes contains many books which are considered extremely rare. Several of them are the only copies known in the world. Mr. Rosenstock is one of the top four or five collectors of Western Americana in the nation, na-tion, and the collection was considered one of the finest in private hands. In the early days of the LDS Church, President Joseph Smith Jr.negotiated with Sam Houston Hous-ton for a huge tract of land in Texas, which was being considered consid-ered as one of the places where the persecuted Mormons might settle. It was then thought that a Mormon buffer state between Texas and Mexico would help maintain peace. With the assassination of President Smith in 1844, however, how-ever, Brigham Young decided not to go through with original plans. Thus, the buffer state for the Mormons never came about. But, the interest of the Mormon Church in that state has never really dwindled. The collection purchased by |