Post dateDecember 18, 2023 The Bexar Remonstrance On December 19, 1832, the residents of San Antonio became the first to hint...
Post dateNovember 29, 2023 Juan de Padilla – Texas Martyr It’s interesting to notice the things history remembers about someone who lived 500 years...
Post dateNovember 24, 2023 Don Juan de Onate Day? Taking nothing from the Pilgrims, the first Thanksgiving in the New World took place...
Post dateNovember 22, 2023 The Curious Case of the Baron de Bastrop Bastrop County as well as the cities of Bastrop, Texas and Bastrop, Louisiana were named...
Post dateNovember 15, 2023 Empresario Martín De León Born in 1765 in Nuevo Santander (now the Mexican state of Tamaulipas), Martín De...
Post dateNovember 13, 2023 Empresario Lorenzo de Zavala Lorenzo de Zavala was infamous to Spain, well-known as a citizen of Mexico, and...
Post dateNovember 10, 2023 Empresario Benjamin Rush Milam Unlike several of the other Texas empresarios, Ben Milam did not come from a...
Post dateNovember 8, 2023 Empresarios Moses & Stephen F. Austin Moses Austin and his son, Stephen F. Austin, were the first Texas empresarios...but despite...
Post dateNovember 6, 2023 The Texas Empresarios The new Mexican government needed men they could trust to attract, acclimate, and administrate...
Post dateOctober 30, 2023 Texas Buys the Alamo (Info courtesy of Copano Bay Press, one of my favorite resources for original source...