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Philip of Texas

James Otis

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . father were talking the matter over, trying to decide whether they would go into[17] Peters's colony, I heard him tell her that already a great many people from Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, as well as from our state, had gone there and had sent back the most cheering words regarding the possibility of making money in that new country.

Perhaps I should say that this grant was made to the Peters colony early in the year 1842, but it was not until the spring of the next year that father began to have what some of our neighbors laughingly called the "Texas Fever"; and I took it because of the possibilities of raising sheep.

It was just about this time that the Texans began to talk of being annexed to the United States, for their republic was not so flourishing as many would have liked to see it. The country was in debt to the amount of nearly seven million dollars, so I heard father say, and the people stood in fear of the Mexicans on the one. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Written somewhat as a journal of a boy and his family who are settling in the republic of Texas in the 1840s. It had interesting stories and good illustrations.