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Texian was a popular demonym, used by Texas colonists, for all the people of the Republic of Texas (1836–1846), before it became a U.S. state. [5] This term was used by early colonists and public officials, including many Texas residents, [5] and President Mirabeau Lamar frequently used it to foster Texas nationalism.
Betty Holekamp (1826–1902), German Texan pioneer, called the Betsy Ross of Texas; Sam Houston (1793–1863), first and third president of Republic of Texas, later U.S. senator and governor of Texas; Anson Jones (1798–1858), last president of Republic of Texas, called "Architect of Annexation"
Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady.In 1519, the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes.
Joseph Francis Tolbert (July 27, 1912 – January 10, 1984), better known as Frank X. Tolbert, was a Texas journalist, historian, and chili enthusiast. For the Dallas Morning News , he wrote a local history column called Tolbert's Texas that ran from 1946 until his death in 1984.
Texas Rising is a 2015 History Channel five-part television miniseries based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and how the Texas Rangers were created. It was directed by Roland Joffé and premiered on May 25, 2015.
Earlier this year, Beyoncé made history as the first Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart after "Texas Hold 'Em" debuted at No. 1. And Bates also became the first Black producer ...
She then left Texas but returned in the later 1820s as a bona fide colonist. Jane Long claimed to be the first woman of English descent to settle in Texas, and her daughter Mary is often said to be the first child born in Texas to an English-speaking woman, [ 1 ] but this has been disproved by census records from 1807 to 1826 which show a ...
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