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Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds to the flavor of Texas history with tales about such things as the first Texas revolution, the first English speaking person in Texas, and the little known counterrevolution of 1838-1840. Charlie examines the expulsion of the Cherokees from Texas and provides details of some of the more famous Indian fights. Charlie also shows his romantic side with the legend of the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eckhardt, Charles F. Texas tales your teacher never told you / Charles F. Eckhardt. p. cm. ISBN 1-55622-141-X 1. TalesTexas. 2. LegendsTexas. 3. TexasHistoryRepublic, 18361846. I. Title. GR110.T5E25 1991 398.22'09764dc20 91-17179 CIP
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This book is dedicated to four people. To my mother, Evelyn Hooper Eckhardt (1914 1986), who first recognized and encouraged my interest in the history and legends of Texas, and who recognized and promoted, in her quiet way, my urge to write. To my wife, Vicki Jean Zeff Walker Eckhardt, who has endured some thirty years of the writer's struggle and has not as yet divorced or killed me, a fact which places her in the patience-league with a feller named Job. To my daughter, Kristin Elaine Eckhardt Mueller, who listened to and liked her old Dad's stories when she was little. And to my grandson, Stephen Clint Mueller, who has the good or ill fortune to have been nicknamed MacDuff at birth because he chanced to be grandson to a man who loves Shakespeare and he was delivered by Caesarian sectionand who, with his contemporaries and those who follow, will have to find those Texas tales the teachers never tell somewhere outside a classroom.
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Contents
I The First English-Speaker in Texas
1
II The First Texas Revolution
11
III The Many Flags of Texas
39
IV The Counterrevolution of 18381840
53
V The Expulsion of the Cherokees
73
VI The Council House Fight
81
VII The Linnville Raid
87
VIII The Legend of the Yellow Rose
103
IX Wilbarger
115
X The Ghost at Bailey's Prairie
121
XI Sam Colt, Jack Hays, and the Republic of TexasOne Helluva Partnership
125
XII Who Was Three-legged Willie?
141
XIII Jim Bowie's Elusive Knife
147
XIV The Treasure of Brady Creek
155
XV Jim Bowie at Calf Creek
161
XVI Oil!
179
Sources
201
Index
205
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The How-Come of This Book
As a general rule, our school courses in Texas history start about the time the Spaniards first came into Mexico andexcept for a very brief few words on the end of the Republic and annexationpretty well end about 4:48 P.M. on April 21, 1836, at San Jacinto. When I was a youngster, anything else you wanted to know about Texas history you got from J. Frank Dobieor Zane Grey and Max Brand, if that's the direction your reading tastes ranor from Gene Autry and Tex Ritter movies.
When we studied Texas history in schooland even if we pored over books like Texas History Movies in detailwe somehow got the impression that Sam Houston's Texas Army caught Santa Anna's men with their britches down at San Jacinto and proceeded to whip their drawers and socks off. Then the needle playing the time-record seemed to skip a couple of grooves and the next scene we saw was Dr. Anson Jones, last president of the Republic, hauling down the Lone Star at the log-house capitol in Austin so the Stars and Stripes could be run up. What we generally got was a statement that ran "Texas was a republic for ten years; Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, David G. Burnet, and Anson Jones were the presidents; Stephen F. Austin died, the Republic of Texas went broke, it was annexed by the United States in 1846, and that led to war with Mexico in 1847."
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