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.

Cotton History

Cibolo – Mid 19th Century Immigration

November 18, 2014

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

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Cibolo River Valley Schools – 1857

November 18, 2014

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

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Deaf Smith Oak – R.I.P.

December 28, 2014

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

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Declaration of Secession

February 26, 2015

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

Cotton History

Lucy and the Indians on the Elam Plantation

February 26, 2015

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

Cotton History

Post Oak Lynching

November 18, 2014

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

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Republic of Texas Mail Routes Opened for Bid

October 22, 2015

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

Cotton History

San Antonio Slave Ordinance

February 26, 2015

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

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