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Bengal Tiger (Warner) injects into circus formula No. 1-about the lion tamer (Barton MacLane), the lion tamer's wife (June Travis) and the handsome young man on the flying trapeze (Warren Hull)-one new and valuable factor. Satan, meanest tiger in captivity, chews off the lion tamer'...
When the Republic of Texas gave up its sovereignty to become the biggest State in the Union 91 years ago, it was given the privilege of splitting itself at any time into five states. This week at their Centennial Exposition in Dallas, Texans will begin a six-month celebration of...
Stephen Fuller Austin was a wiry little Missouri trader and politician who went down to Texas in 1821 to found, at San Felipe, the first permanent Anglo-American settlement in that raw Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William...
Patient, tactful Stephen Austin curried favor with Mexican authorities who had just won their independence from Spain, wangled more & more land grants, opened the way for new settlers. By 1835 there were 20,000 Anglo-Americans, only 3,000 Mexicans in Texas. In Mexico City alarmed officials tried to stem...
The scattered Mexican garrisons had been easy to dispose of, but in February 1836, Mexico's Dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna crossed the Rio Grande with an army of 6,000, a threat of death to every American in Texas. Against him, in the Alamo mission at San...