The Texian Loan emblems-of-the-iconic-texas-spirit

The Texian Loan emblems-of-the-iconic-texas-spiritThe Famed TEXIAN LOAN Even before Texas Independence was declared on March 2nd, 1836, Texans were busy raising much needed capital. Stephen F. Austin, famed for his unfailing efforts to bring Americans and Europeans to settle in Texas, was commissioned along with William Wharton and Branch Archer. The three traveled east to New Orleans and thence up the Mississippi & Ohio Rivers and eventually to Washington, making impassioned speeches along the way

so the wealthy citizens of this era became known as "Coupon Clippers

Silver Mines

Texas is shown in the Republic configuration with the western border depicted as the Rio Grande River to its source

and Taos were all within the official borders of the Republic of Texas

and nobody missed it

The 1824 flag had been create to call attention to the Mexican constitution of that year

hundreds of individuals headed west to respond to the call for help and to seek their fortune in Texas

including the mammoth Bexar

Their efforts were successful

and New Mexico

The streetcar heyday ended as the population of Dallas starting moving from the city to the suburbs and embracing new busing systems as well as individual

One of the most detailed maps of the entire Republic of Texas that was published in such a compact size