Sketch of Captain Leander H. McNeilly Military Career
The column notes Leander H. McNeilly enlisted as a Private in the Texas Mounted Volunteers at the start of the Civil War and rose to Captain in Col. Tom Green's Texas regiment, earning renown for leadership. In 1870, Governor Davis selected him to organize 35 Rangers to combat banditry on the Rio Grande. He died at thirty three, after health failed from exposure, and was buried in Washington County where a granite shaft was erected in his honor.
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Leander H. McNeilly
Texas Mounted Volunteers
Sibley
Washington Couty
Texas History Quiz Reveals Deep State and Local Facts
Questions cover Lafitte authority in Texas governance and the Red River boundary dispute. Other items detail Starr County naming, Masonic Lodge records lost in 1836, the Austin Insane Asylum buildout, highway offices, Seguin monument, women in state service, county demonstration origin, liquor tax costs, oil pipeline reach, Texas refineries, blackberry leaders, grass varieties, piracy era letters, Arthur Ikin, and Gonzales eve sermon before the 1835 battle.
Texan Cannon Guard and Pioneer Preacher Rally
Column recounts Col. John H. Moore and Rev. W. P. Stith urging Texans not to surrender a cannon near Gonzales. It notes Washington State Park at Washington-on-the-Brazos, about 80 acres, acquired in 1916 with improvements by Wallashing ton county school children at the blacksmith shop site tied to Texas independence.
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John H. Moore
Gonzales
W. P. Stith
A. Washington
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Wallashington County
Noah T. Byars
Builders paid with XIT land for Texas capitol
The question and answer describe 3,000,000 acres of public land granted to builders for the present Texas capitol, the XIT ranch once the world’s largest. The land funded schools and was selected by Texas musicians as state songs, mailed postpaid for 25 cents.
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Texas
Songs Texans Sing Texas Song Book showcases state songs
The Texas Song Book presents 32 pages of specially selected songs for Texas people and homes. It references the state song the University song and the ballad Will You Come to the Bower among Texas ranches trails and firesides themes.
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Texas Ranches
Texas Trails
Texas
San Jacinto
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Collins’ County
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Glasscock & Miller
C. G. Keenan
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A. Twenty-five
Don Erasmo Seguin
Texas, Centennial Commission
Control
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Texas A. & M. College
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Texas Tax Journal
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Republic
Arthur Ikin
Ikin
Library of the University of Texas
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Llano, Texas
Austin Mutual
Home Office
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Will H. Mayes
Salade Street
Texas Capitol Building
Home Furniture and Undertaking Co
Jeff Hurt
Dick Patton
Robinson Bros. Bus Line
Llano
Budweiser Sandwich Shop
Bill Fraser
Nixon's Confectionery Corner Drug Store
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