Writing the history of Texas started early

Explorers, diplomats, historians and advocates started writing the history of Texas even before the Republic of Texas.Mary Austin Holley is credite...

June 16, 2022
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Explorers, diplomats, historians and advocates started writing the history of Texas even before the Republic of Texas.Mary Austin Holley is credited with writing the first history of Texas in English.She was Stephen F. Austin's cousin and visited her brother Henry Austin in the Texas colony first in 1831. She was a widow at that point, and she began to write about Texas and the Austin colony.She was considering a move from Connecticut and Louisiana to Texas to be near her brother, Henry and Stephen.

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