Texas the Marvellous: The State of Six Flags ...Page, 1916 - 343 sider "Including accounts of the Spanish settlement and establishment of the Indian missions; the unfortunate expedition and death of La Salle; the romance of its early settlement and stories of its hardy pioneers; the nine-year Republic of Texas; Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston; "Remember the Alamo"; the development of the cattle ranches; the great ranches and a visit to a million-acre ranch; the growing cities; the rehabilitation of Galveston; along the troublesome Mexican border; the uttermost corner of Texas; the wonderful Gulf Coast; the panhandle; the black waxy belt; the timber region; the Llano Estacada, the disappearing desert, and the general development of this marvellous state." -- Title page. |
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Texas The Marvellous: The State Of Six Flags Nevin Otto Winter Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2019 |
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Side 25 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Side 43 - States, and for other purposes;" in order to establish justice, promote the welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the following constitution or form of government; and do mutually agree with each other to form ourselves into a free and independent State, by the name of the STATE OF.
Side 110 - To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World: "FELLOW CITIZENS AND COMPATRIOTS : I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continued Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken.
Side 26 - Men of mark from old Missouri, Men of daring from Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Men of many States and races, Bringing wives and children with them, Followed up the wooded valleys, Spread across the rolling prairies, Raising homes and reaping harvests. Rude the toil that tried their patience, Fierce the fights that proved their courage, Rough the stone and tough the timber Out of which they built their order ! Yet they never failed nor faltered, And the instinct of their swarming Made them one...
Side 110 - PS The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves. TRAVIS.
Side 282 - I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. To avert this calamity I shall make no endeavor to maintain my authority as chief executive of the State, except by the peaceful exercise of my functions.
Side 64 - There is not a dollar in the treasury; the nation is involved from ten to fifteen millions. The precise amount of its liabilities has not been ascertained. . . . We are not only without money, but without credit, and, for want of punctuality, without character.
Side 253 - Room! room to turn round in, to breathe and be free, To grow to be giant, to sail as at sea With the speed of the wind on a steed with his mane To the wind, without pathway or route or a rein.
Side 110 - I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character...
Side 329 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.