Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas

MAIN DOOR OF MISSION SAN JOSÉ, SAN ANTONIO.
BY M. E. M. DAVIS Author of “In War Times at La Rose Blanche,” “Under the Man-Fig,” “Minding the Gap,” etc., etc.
GINN & COMPANY BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON
Copyright, 1897 By M. E. M. DAVIS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 26.5
The Athenæum Press GINN & COMPANY · PROPRIETORS · BOSTON · U.S.A.
TO THE MEMORY OF E. H. Cushing
In the following pages I have endeavored to sketch, in rather bold outlines, the story of Texas. It is a story of knightly romance which calls the poet even as, in earlier days, the Land of the Tehas called across its borders the dreamers of dreams.
But the history of Texas is far more than a romantic legend. It is a record of bold conceptions and bolder deeds; the story of the discoverer penetrating unknown wildernesses; of the pioneer matching his strength against the savage; of the colonist struggling for his freedom and his rights.
It is the chronicle of the birth of a people; the history of the rise and progress of a great State.
I have tried in these simple readings so to arrange the salient points of a drama of two centuries as to present a consistent whole.
And I shall be happy if I shall succeed in awakening in the reader somewhat of the interest in Texas history which has inspired this work.
There are several features which mark Texas history as unique. One of these is the difference between the methods of colonization employed in Texas and those exercised elsewhere in the United States.