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Does Texas's experience as a republic make it unique among the other states? In many ways, Texas was an "accidental republic" for nearly ten years, until Texans voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation to the United States after winning independence from Mexico. Single Star of the West begins with the Texas Revolution and examines the emergence of a Texas identity. Next, several contributors discuss how the Republic was defended by its army, navy,...
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This book appears in May, 1968, in the year of the Southwest's first world fair - the HemisFair in San Antonio. San Antonio, situated as it is at a confluence of cultures, in many ways represents Texas as completely as any city in the state. It was a seat of government when Spain controlled Texas; it remained a seat of government when Mexico took over. Both Texas and Mexican armies fought over it; each won, and each lost the city. At the time of independence...
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"Traces the efforts the Texans made to build the Republic into a nation of importance. The chief underlying forces which shaped the relations of Texas with the United States, England, France, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, the Hanseatic cities, etc. are clearly given." Dust jacket.
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Written anonymously in 1838-39 by a citizen of Ohio, it is the earliest known account of the first year of the Texas Republic. The author arrived at Galveston Island on March 22, 1837, before the city of Galveston was founded, and spent the next six months in the Republic. His inquiring mind and objective, acute observations of early Texas provide us a way of returning to the past, revisiting landmarks that have vanished forever.
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