The Texas quote of the day: My ambition has been to succeed in redeeming Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plough alone, in spreading over it North American population enterprise and intelligence, in doing this I hoped to make the fortune of thousands and my own amongst the rest. My success so far has fully equalled my expectation, and I think that I derived more satisfaction from the view of flourishing farms springing up in this wilderness than military or political chieftains do from the retrospect of their victorious campains. ------- Stephen F. Austin, in an 1829 letter. This was eight years after he first entered Texas in July, 1821, and seven years before the Alamo fell.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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