Visse a Natchez, nello stato americano del Mississippi, e in Texas, allora spagnolo. Durante i suoi viaggi egli venne a contatto con gli indiani Comanche e Taovayas e i suoi appunti di viaggio servirono a disegnare il confine tra Texas e Louisiana nel 1804. Fu ucciso dai soldati spagnoli nel 1801.
Bibliografia Maurine T. Wilson and Jack Jackson, Philip Nolan and Texas Expeditions to the Unknown Land, 1791-1801, Texian Press (April 1988), ISBN 0-87244-079-6. J.A. Quintero, "Philip Nolan and His Companions" reprinted in Malcolm McLean, Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, 1788-1822, The Texas Association, Univ. of Texas at Arlington Press (1980), ISBN 0-932408-01-X. Edward Everett Hale, "The Real Philip Nolan", Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society 4 (1901). Edward Everett Hale, Philip Nolan's Friends: A Story of the Change of Western Empire Scribner, Armstrong, (1877); republished by Literature House (1970), ISBN 0-8398-0751-1. Devereaux, Linda Ericson, "Philip Nolan and His Wild Horses", Texana, Volume XI (1973). De Ville, Winston, and Jack Jackson. "Wilderness Apollo: Louis Badin's Immortalization of the Ouachita Militia's Confrontation with the Philip Nolan Expedition of 1800." Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 92 (January 1989), pp. 449–463. "Philip Nolan", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography Vol. 1 (1988), p. 607 James Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Soldier and Pioneer (1935) Rogers Printing Co., New Orleans Maurine T. Wilson, "Philip Nolan and His Activities in Texas", Master's thesis (1932), University of Texas at Austin Collegamenti esterni Biografia in Handbook of Texas Online