Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas

by M. E. M. Davis

MAIN DOOR OF MISSION SAN JOSÉ, SAN ANTONIO.

Under Six Flags
THE STORY OF TEXAS

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
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Copyright, 1897
By M. E. M. DAVIS
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The Athenæum Press
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TO THE MEMORY
OF
E. H. Cushing

PREFACE.

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.