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A Uniquely Texan Perspectives

European colonization, the American Revolution, Western Expansion, Plantation Slavery, American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Wild West and Industrialization from a uniquely Texan perspective. 

Cibolo – Mid 19th Century Immigration

Historians struggle to identify sources of information that have first hand knowledge. Eyewitnesses to historical events...

Cibolo River Valley Schools – 1857

The families that move from the Southern States to the Cibolo River Valley in the early...

Deaf Smith Oak – R.I.P.

A celebrated witness to the beginning of the Texas Revolution left this world in 2014. Crippled by...

Declaration of Secession

On February 1, 1861, a state convention voted to secede, making Texas the seventh state to...

Lucy and the Indians on the Elam Plantation

The term “plantation” is deeply imprinted on the American psyche. It conjures up visions of grand plantation houses like Oak Alley in Louisiana or...

Post Oak Lynching

In 1854, slave owners from east Bexar County,...

Republic of Texas Mail Routes Opened for Bid

After the siege of Bexar in 1835 and before the fall of the Alamo, the newly formed government of Texas determined that mail routes...

San Antonio Slave Ordinance

During the 1850s, plantation owners brought their slaves to East Bexar County. To protect their ownership of these slaves and themselves from slave revolt...

Stage Travel in the San Antonio Area

Texas Roads During the 18th century, the land that would become Texas was administered by Spain. El Camino Real and the La Bahia Road passed...

The Gonzales Road in the Texas Revolution

The Road to Gonzales connected the most important of the early Anglo-American colonies in Tejas to the Mexican seat of government in San Antonio...

The Hail Tornado – 1868

Colonel E. H. Cunningham had created a trail herd of 3,000 head of cattle on his...