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 AUSTIN, TEXAS 
 
 VON BOECKMANN-JONES Co. 
 
 1916
 
 Copyright 1901, 
 
 by 
 Minnie G. DilL
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 I have tried in these pages to present some 
 facts in Texas History which would be interesting 
 to children in the Second and Third Grades. 
 Every child should read History Stories at an 
 early age, because they have great value in form- 
 ing the character of the young. Children love 
 the marvelous in Fables and Fairy Stories, but 
 /j they often ask, "Is that story sure enough?" 
 Jr which shows that they thirst for the truth. 
 
 Every teacher believes that the way to fix His- 
 3 tory and Geography in the mind is to carry on 
 the study of them at the same time. The Geog- 
 * raphy questions at the end of some of the stories 
 tf> are merely suggestive. The teacher can furnish 
 many more, so that a child can gain much infor- 
 mation about his own State. 
 
 I desire to express my thanks to Mr. Sowell for 
 
 rf the use of cuts from his book on Texas Indian 
 
 v^ Fighters, and for material for Indian stories; 
 
 $ and to Mr. Sterling Fulmore for the designs for 
 
 * other cuts; to Judge Raines for assistance; and 
 
 : to the State Library, which is rich in valuable 
 
 i-j and interesting works on Texas History. I have 
 
 used also as aids Thrall's History and Wooten's 
 
 History, and Under Six Flags. 
 
 Austin, Texas, August 23, 1901. 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 Texas 9 
 
 Air of Dixie 9 
 
 The Happy Hunting Ground 9 
 
 The Horned Frog 11 
 
 The Rabbit 12 
 
 The Land of Tents 13 
 
 Indians 14 
 
 Bows and Arrows. I 17 
 
 Bows and Arrows. II 18 
 
 Big Foot 19 
 
 "Rig Foot" Wallace 22 
 
 Wallace's Dogs 23 
 
 Cynthia Ann Parker 24 
 
 Iron Jacket 27 
 
 Putnam Children 29 
 
 What the Indians Thought of Red Hair 31 
 
 Bowie's Brother's Story of an Indian Fight. I. 32 
 Bowie's Brother's Story of an Indian Fight. 
 
 II 31 
 
 Black Jim Bowie 36 
 
 La Salle 38 
 
 Bean 42 
 
 A Bold Pirate 44 
 
 The Treasure 4o 
 
 The Father of Texas.. . 48
 
 6 CONTENTS. 
 
 How the First Texans Lived 49 
 
 Austin in Mexico 52 
 
 The War 54 
 
 Battle Hymn 55 
 
 The First Battle 56 
 
 Ben Milam 57 
 
 Concepcion 58 
 
 The Grass Fight 60 
 
 Ben Milam 61 
 
 Independence Day 63 
 
 The Twin Sisters 64 
 
 The Great Hunter 65 
 
 The Texas Spy 66 
 
 An Indian Fighter 67 
 
 The Flag 68 
 
 Travis' Letter from the Alamo 69 
 
 The Fall of the Alamo. 1 70 
 
 The Fall of the Alamo. II 71 
 
 Fannin 74 
 
 Fanhin 75 
 
 The Runaways 78 
 
 Burning of Gonzales 81 
 
 San Jacinto. 1 82 
 
 San Jacinto. II 83 
 
 San Jacinto. Ill 84 
 
 A Great Man 87 
 
 A Letter from Houston 89 
 
 Bonnie Blue Flag. . . 91
 
 CONTENTS. 7 
 
 Texas 92 
 
 The War Without Any Blood 93 
 
 The Cart War 94 
 
 The Black and White Beans 95 
 
 Drawing Beans 97 
 
 Prisoners 100 
 
 Wallace a Prisoner in Mexico 101 
 
 The Texas Seal 103 
 
 A Texas Norther 104 
 
 The Blue and the Gray 105 
 
 Everything Cost More During the War 107 
 
 Young Sidney Sherman 108 
 
 The First Railroad in Texas 109 
 
 A True Soldier 110 
 
 Death of Albert Sidney Johnston Ill 
 
 The Land We Love.. ..112
 
 TEXAS. 
 
 "Above, above such skies of blue, 
 
 Below, below such flower-sown sod, 
 
 While ever and ever between the two 
 
 Go the wonderful winds of God." 
 
 DIXIE. 
 
 "Texas is the land for me; 
 On a winter morning the wind blows free: 
 Away, boys, away down South in Texas ! 
 In Texas land where I was born in, 
 Early one fine summer morning; 
 Away, boys, away down South in Texas ! 
 
 "In the happy land of Texas, hurrah, hurrah ! 
 In Texas land we'll take our stand, 
 And fight and die for Texas land, 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! hurrah for the boys of Texas !" 
 
 THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUND. 
 
 A long time ago, there was a tribe of Indians 
 traveling. When they first saw the plains of 
 Texas, full of beautiful wild flowers and grass,
 
 10 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 they called out, "Tehas ! Tehas !" which means 
 the Happy Hunting Ground. From that we took 
 the name Texas. 
 
 Xo wonder they liked it. Droves of wild 
 horses would snort and run out of the way when 
 the Indians came near them. Deer ran over the 
 prairie in herds of hundreds. The deer were so 
 tame that you could draw them to you by putting 
 a red flag in the hushes. When one was shot the 
 rest of them would run up and gather around 
 him to see what was the matter. Black bear hid 
 in the cane. Wolves howled. 
 
 The prairie was alive with buffalo, going 
 morning, noon, and night, to drink at the river; 
 wading, and snorting in the water; climbing the 
 muddy banks, and looking with wild eyes at the 
 passing canoes. The Indians could hide and 
 shoot them as they came to drink. Sometimes 
 they killed twelve in three days, besides deer and 
 geese. 
 
 The music of little birds filled the air. They 
 gave life to the country. There were many sea 
 birds near the Gulf. 
 
 [Name ten birds and tell where you have seen 
 them.]
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 11 
 
 THE HOBNED FKOG. 
 
 The horned frog is like both the frog and the 
 lizard. He is from three to five inches long. 
 His feet are those of a. lizard; his body, part frog 
 and part lizard; his tail, part lizard and part 
 pollywog. His head has scales going up and 
 back like horns ; two of them are longer than the 
 rest. Two lines of horns go down his body. He 
 is a dark gray, with white spots all over him. 
 His eyes are black, like two bird-shots. His 
 mouth is large, as if it might swallow you. 
 
 He moves like a frog and a lizard, a hop, 
 skip, and a crawl. 
 
 If a frog were as big as an elephant, wouldn't 
 you be afraid of him? 
 
 When you take him into your hands he looks 
 at you with his little dark eyes, which seem to 
 say, "I would not hurt you for the world !" 
 
 You may turn him over and tickle him ever so 
 much, yet he will keep his temper. Little chil- 
 dren, don't you like to play with him? Did you 
 ever drop him down the back of your waist, at 
 the neck, that he might tickle you as he crawls 
 on vour back?
 
 12 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 Once a man was walking along, when out of 
 the grass near by ran what he thought was a 
 centipede, and he was afraid of it. He got a 
 stick about ten feet long and mashed it. It was 
 a homed frog. 
 
 He is a pet with all who know him. He takes 
 his meals on flies and tender grass, and his drink 
 he gathers from the night dew. 
 
 THE BABBIT. 
 
 The rabbit is called mule-eared because of his 
 long ears. His ears are tipped with white, and 
 while the rabbit is sitting still he keeps them 
 moving up and down, as the butterfly does his 
 wings when on a flower. 
 
 Are rabbits not graceful and fast, and pretty 
 to look upon, as they bound away? They are so 
 fast and strong that it is hard for any clog but 
 the greyhound to catch them. 
 
 If your dog Tray should see a rabbit jump up 
 within ten feet of his nose, he would give a bark 
 and run after him. He would follow for a while, 
 then stop and look at the rabbit, drop his tail, 
 hang his head, and come back. 
 
 [Name ten animals that live in Texas.]
 
 FOOTPRINTS OP TEXAS HISTORY. 13 
 
 THE LAXB OF TENTS. 
 
 You like to go out camping for a few weeks 
 every summer, don't you? But how would you 
 like to live in a tent all the time? That is the 
 way the Indians lived. They called their tent a 
 wigwam. 
 
 WIGWAM. 
 
 The wigwam is buffalo skins sewed together 
 and made into a tent. . The skins are held up by 
 poles. The women can take these tents down in 
 a few minutes when they want to find a better 
 hunting ground.
 
 14 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 If I were a hunter, I think I would pitch my 
 tent here in Texas. The prairie is full of noisy 
 wild birds. Geese and other flocks fly here and 
 there, crying, "Conk, conk," as they fly. Cranes 
 inarch over the plains. Prairie chickens rise on 
 the wing. There are many blackbirds. 
 
 [Draw a wigwam.] 
 
 INDIANS. 
 
 An Indian mamma tells her little boy : "If you 
 go on the warpath, do not turn around when you 
 have gone part way, but go on as far as you were 
 going and then come back. I would not cry if I 
 were to hear that you had been killed in battle. 
 This is what makes a man, to fight and to be 
 brave. Love your friend and never desert him." 
 
 Indians have odd names. Peace Maker, Skin 
 Shirt. Dull Knife, and Lone Wolf are men's 
 names. 
 
 An Indian is quiet in peace; in war his eyes 
 beam and he moves quickly. When they want to 
 make signs to each other across the prairie, they 
 pile up wet and dry grass and set it on fire. A
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 15 
 
 smoke in a little while goes up into the air with 
 a puff. 
 
 When they come home from a buffalo hunt 
 thev have a dance. A fire is made in the middle 
 
 TEXAS RAXGERS TRAILIXG IXDIAXS. 
 
 of a piece of ground. Their faces and their 
 bodies are painted. The chief dances up and 
 clown singing to the music of a gourd filled with 
 rocks; then all join hands and dance around. 
 Thev make signs to show all that thev do in
 
 16 
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF "EXAS HISTORY. 
 
 the chase, the run after the game, shooting of 
 guns, find fall \g of bulls. At last they all 
 march ;: jund if the_y were loaded with game. 
 
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 rows an ' y fly. 
 
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 corn in holes in the 
 
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 x^g grounds. 
 
 .ie children. If the little 
 ictimes their mothers black 
 Liem out of the tent. When 
 
 this is done, they can not eat until it is washed 
 off; at times they are kept a whole day in this 
 way. They love their little children. 
 
 The children are polite to their papas and 
 mammas ana all older people. The women have 
 all the work to do. Indians can hear and see 
 better than you can. The Texas Indians like to 
 ride. They are good horsemen.
 
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 BOWS AND ARROWS. 
 
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 kill a small animal, 
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 grows older he is given 
 the strong bow. 
 
 Let me tell you how 
 arrow. The rods must be CU L at the right time; 
 that i?j late in the fall when the wood is hard. 
 
 The sticks are as thick as your little finger. 
 They are from two to two and a half feet long, 
 wrapped with skin. This keeps them from bend- 
 ing. The stici.j a/e then hm np over the fire 
 to be dried. After two weeks the bark is taken 
 of!. Then they must be cut the same length. A 
 little gutter is made in all arrows, to let the blood 
 run out. The arrow-head is made of steel or 
 
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 ke a ood bow and
 
 IS FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 stone. Tt is shaped like a heart. The sides are 
 cut out like saw teeth. The arrows are sold to 
 the Indians for furs. 
 
 The wood is wrapped to the arrow-head with 
 deer skin, which has been made soft in water. 
 
 Then the feathers are put on. They are pulled 
 from the quill and put on the shaft of the arrow. 
 Three feathers are put on each shaft. The arrow 
 is painted and then it is ready for use. It takes 
 an Indian a day to make an arrow for which he 
 gets ten cents. 
 
 BOAVS AND ARROWS. 
 TI. 
 
 Would you like to know how the Indian poi- 
 sons his arrows? 
 
 A rattlesnake is made to put his fangs into 
 the liver of a deer while it is warm. The arrow- 
 heads are put into the liver and left there for 
 half an hour, when they are drawn out and laid 
 in the sun to dry. A thin yellow scum sticks to 
 the arrow, and it if hut so much as touches the 
 skin it poisons. 
 
 The Indians carried these arrows in the skins 
 of rattlesnakes, and they were very careful of
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 19 
 
 them, but sometimes horses, dogs, and children 
 would get them. So at last the Indians would 
 not use them. 
 
 A liver and many arrows were packed on a 
 pony called a "dead horse." 
 
 The how is four feet long and one inch wide. 
 When the bow is to be used, the man sets the end 
 to which the string is made fast, on the ground, 
 and then bends down the other end until the loop 
 slips into the notch. This is called stringing the 
 bow. 
 
 The wood used in making bows is ash, hickory, 
 elm, and cedar. 
 
 [Draw a bow and an arrow.] 
 
 BIG FOOT. 
 
 Big Foot was an Indian chief. This name was 
 given to him because men could trace him by the 
 size of his footprints. He was a Waco Indian. 
 He used to go into a town and steal the horses. 
 
 One time Captain Eoss and three men were 
 riding along, when they came to a hill. Looking 
 back they saw Big Foot and four other Indians. 
 Ross said: "A horseman comes this way riding
 
 20 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 like the wind ! He has turned ! How he rides ! 
 See him wave his arms and hear him yell ! Let 
 us overtake him !" Off they went and caught up 
 with him ! 
 
 It had heen raining for days and the guns were 
 wet. So not a gun was fired, not an arrow was 
 shot, and yet they got hack all the horses, and all 
 the Indians were killed. 
 
 A few days after, the whole tribe came to Boss' 
 house. He was sick. His little son, who was 
 years afterwards Governor, went out and asked 
 them what they wanted, and they said they wanted 
 watermelons. He showed them the way to the 
 patch, and they took some melons and went away. 
 
 At that time they killed many people all around 
 Austin, the Capital of our State. They ran after 
 a man named "William Barton, who lived across 
 the river from Austin at the spring which bears 
 his name. Finding they were going to catch up 
 with him, he stopped on top of a hill and made 
 a sign as if he were calling to some one to come 
 and help him. The Indians stopped. Then he 
 ran home.
 
 'BIG FOOT" WALLACE.
 
 22 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 "BIG FOOT" WALLACE. 
 
 One night the Big Foot Indian came to Aus- 
 tin, and stole something from a man named 
 Gravis, and then went to the cabin of Fox and 
 Wallace. 
 
 The next morning, Gravis trailed the Indian 
 to the doorstep of Wallace, and waked Wallace 
 up and told him he had been stealing. Wallace 
 wore moccasins and made a big track. But he 
 was so angry at Gravis that he was about to whip 
 him on the spot, and made a grab at him. Gravis 
 got out of the way and told him to show that he 
 did iiot do it. 
 
 Wallace said he could do that, and at once went 
 to the Indian's track and put his foot in it with 
 the moccasin on and made Gravis come up close 
 enough to look at it, and showed him how much 
 longer the Indian's track was than his. So 
 Gravis begged pardon and walked off. 
 
 Fox came to the door and saw the whole thing, 
 and while Wallace was standing in the Indian's 
 track he laughed and said : "Now, Wallace, when 
 the Big Foot Indian is not around, we will call 
 you 'Big Foot.' " Others took up the name, and
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 23 
 
 so when some one would say something about Big 
 Foot another would ask, "Which do you mean, 
 the Indian or 'Big Foot' Wallace?" 
 
 Fox was one day hoeing some corn, when Big 
 Foot, the Indian, shot him from the fence. Wal- 
 lace then tried to kill the Indian. 
 
 WALLACE'S DOGS. 
 
 Wallace had four dogs of which he thought a 
 great deal. Their names were Bock, Ring, Speck, 
 and Bias. Rock was his Indian dog. Wallace 
 could always tell by the way he barked when In- 
 dians were around. 
 
 When it was night, Wallace would take his 
 blanket and gun and dogs and stay in a thicket 
 near by until morning. The dogs would lie down 
 by him without making any noise. 
 
 One time Rock gave the sign of Indians just 
 before day, and Wallace took his gun and 
 watched. He called the dogs out to see if they 
 could find the trail. He soon heard them barking 
 loudly. Coming to the spot he saw an Indian 
 down in a gully and the dogs around him. 
 
 He was keeping the dogs from taking hold of
 
 24 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 him by throwing his blanket over their heads. 
 Wallace raised his gun to shoot, but he saw the 
 Indian had no arms, and, calling the dogs off, 
 made signs for the Indian to come up. He had 
 a small knife, and that was broken. He had no 
 arms to kill game, and he was nearly starved. He 
 had broken his knife trying to open a terrapin. 
 Wallace took him to his cabin, gave him all he 
 could eat, and left the clogs to watch him. 
 
 CYNTHIA ANN PARKER. 
 
 A man by the name of Parker, with nine other 
 families, had come out to Texas and built a fort; 
 that is, all the cabins had a wall ten or twelve 
 fee high outside to make them safe. 
 
 Early one morning, about two or three hun- 
 dred Indians came to see them. They held up a 
 white flag when near, as if they were friendly, 
 and asked where they could find a water hole and 
 a nice camping place, saying they were hungry 
 and wanted some fresh beef. 
 
 Mr. Parker was afraid not to do what they 
 wanted him to do, so he went out to see them. 
 When he came back he said he thought they
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 25 
 
 wanted to fight, but he would go again and try 
 to make friends. As soon as he got among them 
 they killed him. Their first taste of blood made 
 them want more. 
 
 They took the fort. Most of the men had gone 
 
 to the fields to work. There were fifteen children 
 and ten women. They took mothers from their 
 children. They made Mrs. Parker put her little 
 girl, Cynthia Ann, nine years old, and her son 
 John behind two Indians on horseback. A man 
 from the fort soon took Mrs. Parker from them.
 
 26 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 One tribe took John, who got away in a few 
 months; another took Cynthia Ann, who lived 
 with them twenty-five years. 
 
 That night the Indians put their prisoners in 
 the center of a ring and had a dance. 
 
 Cynthia Ann grew up with the little Indian 
 girls and hoys, waiting on the squaws; in time 
 she seemed to forget all about her own people. 
 If the white men and Indians were fighting, she 
 would run from the whites just as the others did. 
 
 Some white men tried to get her to say if she 
 wanted to go back home, but she would not say a 
 word. When she grew up she married an Indian 
 chief. She seemed to be happy, with her children 
 playing around her, and waiting on the big chief. 
 
 Governor Itoss was fighting with the Indians 
 at Pease Eiver, and took some of them. Cynthia 
 Ann was among those he caught. Looking at her, 
 he saw she had blue eyes, but was as dark as an 
 Indian. He found out her story, and took her 
 and her children among white people; but she 
 never seemed happy. She died in a few years. 
 She missed the wild life.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 27 
 
 IRON JACKET. 
 
 The Comanches were fighting Indians. They 
 fought so much that no one was safe. So the 
 State sent a hundred men and some friendly In- 
 dians to try to take the camp of Iron Jacket, the 
 Comanche chief. 
 
 He was called Iron Jacket because he wore a 
 coat made of iron. The Indians said that he 
 could not be killed by the bullet of the white man. 
 He would fight in the front. 
 
 The camp was found by some Indians with our 
 men, and taken by surprise. Iron Jacket fought 
 hard. The bullets did not seem to hurt him. 
 
 At last a shot from Boss killed him. Ross took 
 all the horses, men, and other things at Iron 
 Jacket's camp; among them was his little son 
 Nopo, whom the Ross family kept. 
 
 [Colorado means red. Ask your teacher to tell 
 you the meaning of some other Indian names.]
 
 IRON JACKET.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 29 
 
 PUTNAM CHILDREN. 
 
 One bright day Matilda Lockhart, James Put- 
 nam and his two sisters went to the river to get 
 pecans. For some time they picked up the nuts, 
 and their merry laughter rang out through the 
 forest. 
 
 At last it was time to go home. Their baskets 
 were full of nuts and they were hungry for din- 
 ner. They took up baskets and bonnets and ran 
 to the end of the prairie. 
 
 But what a sight now met those merry eyes ! 
 The laughing' voices were hushed and the cheeks 
 were pale with fear. There rode up a band of 
 wild, painted Indians. 
 
 The poor little ones could not get away. With 
 a wild cry the Indians ran around them, and 
 reaching from their horses, grabbed the scream- 
 ing children, and holding them in front, ran away 
 to the woods. 
 
 AVheii the children did not come home their 
 mammas and papas became afraid. They began 
 to search among the pecan trees for them. The 
 smallest child was only six years old. When they 
 came to the spot where the children were taken,
 
 30 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 oh, how they felt ! A bonnet here, a bonnet there, 
 a basket turned over and pecans scattered all 
 about, told them the story. 
 
 On the ground lay little Jimmy's hat. The 
 ground was torn up by the horses' hoofs. They 
 knew too well what had become of their little 
 ones. No time was to be lost. They ran back and 
 got a few men and were soon on the trail of the 
 Indians. The trail led up the river and was hard 
 to keep, as the country was rough. 
 
 Once where the Indians stopped the tracks of 
 the children could be seen in the sand. This 
 was near New Braunfels. Here they had to give 
 up the hunt until the} r could get more men. 
 
 After a while they came to an Indian camp. A 
 spy found out that the children were there. The 
 papas could hardly keep from going to get them. 
 Thev shot into the camp as soon as it was light. 
 An Indian gave a loud yell. Our men made a 
 rush to fight their way to the middle of the camp 
 where the children were. 
 
 There were only a few white men, but they 
 fought hard. More Indians kept coming in. 
 Loud yells filled the air, arrows flew on every side,
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 31 
 
 tomahawks were raised on high. Our men had to 
 give up trying to get their little children. 
 
 After a long time two of the children were 
 hought for some beads. One girl became the wife 
 of a chief and would not leave. She wanted to 
 spend the rest of her life as an Indian. 
 
 Years after a white man bought an old woman 
 from the Indians and brought her to his home to 
 live. She could not tell her name or where she 
 had been taken from by the Indians. When they 
 came to the river she said she thought she had 
 seen that country before. James Putnam, who 
 lived near there, was sent for to see if this was 
 his sister. He knew her by a scar on one of her 
 arms. 
 
 WHAT THE INDIAN'S THOUGHT OF RED 
 HAIR. 
 
 Henry Karnes was a man who made his living 
 by catching wild animals in traps and selling 
 their fur. 
 
 He liked to fight with the Indians; that was 
 why he came to Texas. He was a spy; Deaf 
 Smith was a friend of his.
 
 32 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 One time when lie was fighting with an Indian 
 chief he was hurt and taken to their camp. 
 Strange to say, they neither killed nor ate him 
 up, as lie had thought they would do. They liked 
 him and were kind to him. 
 
 His red hair, which they thought was painted, 
 made them think he was a great doctor. 
 
 They tried to take his red hair away. Taking 
 him to the water, they put him under the water 
 to wash the red from his hair. They came near 
 di owning him. When the red would not come 
 off, they thought he was some man sent down by 
 the Great Spirit. 
 
 BOWIE'S BKOTITEirS STORY OF AN 
 IXDIAX FIGHT. 
 
 i. 
 
 We met two Indians near San Saba. After 
 smoking and talking with them an hour and giv- 
 ing them some tobacco and shot, they went away. 
 
 We camped at night. The next morning a 
 Mexican came to our camp to tell us his chief had 
 sent word that the Indians were after us. The
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 33 
 
 Mexican let us see his chief's silver medal to show 
 he was telling the truth. 
 
 The roads were full of rocks, ' which hurt our 
 horses' feet. \Ve. wanted to reach the fort. In 
 the evening we camped under some trees. We 
 got ready for the night by cutting a road inside 
 the thicket of bushes. We put guards out. 
 
 The next morning we started for the fort. The 
 Indians were on our trail to the east, not far 
 away. An Indian footman, a little ahead of the 
 others, with his face to the ground, was tracking. 
 The cry of Indians was given, and all hands to 
 arms. We got down and made our horses fast 
 to the trees. The Indians gave the war whoop 
 and halted. 
 
 Their number was so many more than ours, I 
 was sent out to talk with them and try to keep 
 peace. I walked up near them and said : 
 
 "Send out your chief; I want to talk with him." 
 
 Their answer was, "How de do ?" and they shot 
 at us. Bowie fired back. They then opened a 
 heavy fire upon us. When they found their shot 
 did not bring Bowie down, eight Indians, on foot, 
 took after him with their tomahawks, and when
 
 34 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 near him our men killed four of them. Then the 
 other four went back. All was still for about five 
 minutes. 
 
 The Indians ran up the hill and began to shoot 
 their arrows from bebind trees, rocks and bushes. 
 Another chief came up near the spot where the 
 last one fell. 
 
 Bowie fired and the chief fell from his horse. 
 
 Some Indians came up behind us and began to 
 fire. They made a ring around us. We had to 
 lea\ 7 e the trees and take to the thickets. We shot 
 down most of the men under the bank of the 
 creek, because we could see them when they could 
 not see us. 
 
 The road we had cut around the thicket the 
 night before helped us to see them, while we were 
 hid. We moved six or eight feet as soon as we 
 fired, so their only mark was the smoke of our 
 guns. In this way we fought two hours. 
 
 n. 
 
 They found out that they could not run us out 
 of the thicket. They put fire to the dry grass to 
 try to burn us out. .
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 35 
 
 We kept a watch all around. One of the In- 
 dians crawled down the creek and put fire to the 
 grass around us; but before he could get back he 
 was killed. 
 
 At this time we saw no way of getting out, as 
 the fire was coming down to the spot where we 
 were. What was to be done ? Must we be burned 
 up, or driven into the prairie among the red men ? 
 To make it worse their shouts filled the air. As 
 soon as the smoke hid us we planned what was 
 best to be done. 
 
 We thought that if they came upon us we would 
 give them one fire, place our backs together, draw 
 our knives, and fight them as long as any one of 
 us was left alive. 
 
 It was now sundown and we had been fighting 
 since sunrise; and they, seeing us still alive and 
 ready to fight, drew off and camped for the night. 
 All night long we could hear the Indians crying 
 over their dead. 
 
 The next morning they left, carrying their dead 
 
 with them.
 
 36 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 BLACK JIM BOWIE. 
 
 Bowie and some men were out hunting for gold 
 and silver. They piled up rocks to make their 
 camp safe. They could see anyone coming a long 
 way off. The camp was near a spring. 
 
 One morning some Indians came up. Bowie 
 and the men went into the camp. Soon they be- 
 gan to fight. The Indians fired from behind 
 rocks, trees, and bushes. 
 
 The fight lasted all day. Through the day, 
 Bowie's men drank up all their water. The In- 
 dians would see them if they went to the spring. 
 
 Bowie had a young negro named Jim. 
 
 "Jim," said Bowie, "I want you to take the 
 canteens and bring us some water from the 
 spring." 
 
 "N"o, sah, Mars. Jim, couldn't think of such a 
 thing. Dem old Injuns is layin' dah in dem 
 rocks and brushes and they can git up from dah 
 and kill dis nigger 'fo you could say scat twice, 
 and 'fo I could half fill dem canteens. No, sah; 
 can't go." 
 
 Bowie looked at the negro and said; "Jim,
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 37 
 
 which are you the most afraid of, me or those 
 Indians ?" 
 
 "Well, now," says Jim, "if you 'sist on me 
 going', den I'll go. Hunt up dem canteens. I'm 
 off." 
 
 Bowie told Jim he need not be afraid. He 
 filled the canteens and was coming back before 
 the Indians saw him. They began to yell. Jim 
 ran as well as he could with the canteens dan- 
 gling about him. The Indians ran after him. 
 Bowie's gun killed some of them. All ran back 
 but one, who dropped his empty gun, and pulling 
 out his tomahawk ran close to Jim. 
 
 Jim now sang out, "0 Mars. Jim ! Shoot dis 
 Injun here. He gwine to hurt somebody here." 
 
 A man from the camp shot and the Indian fell 
 back so suddenly that his feet flew up into the 
 air. Jim, who was running and watching the 
 Indian at the same time, shouted out: "Never 
 mind, now, Mars. Jim. Mars. Bob done knock 
 his heels higher'n his head." 
 
 Jim soon came into the fort, puffing and blow- 
 ing, but unhurt, and bringing all the canteens 
 with him. 

 
 38 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 "Now. Mars. Jim/' he said between breaths, 
 "make dis water go fur as possible. It won't take 
 much mo' dis kind o' work to be one nigger less 
 in his big round world. De wool liked a flew dat 
 time. All dat kept dat ugly Injun from puttin' 
 dat hatchet on my head cause Mars. Bob hold him 
 load back and make de bullet come straight. Ha., 
 ha, ha ! You orter hear him grunt when dat piece 
 lead took him kerchug." 
 
 LA SALLE. 
 
 La Salle, when a boy, liked to travel. When he 
 talked about finding a great river people said, 
 "He is crazy: his head is touched." What is the 
 name of the great river? 
 
 While he was hunting for this river he came to 
 Texas. He came from France many miles across 
 the ocean. He had a hard time getting the King 
 of France to let him go. He fitted out four ships 
 to go by sea to the mouth of the great river. 
 They sailed with 300 men and women. One of 
 his ships full of things was sunk. 
 
 They landed safely. La, Salle put up camps,
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 39 
 
 and sent out men to see where they had landed. 
 It was pleasant for the men to see green trees.; 
 they had heen on the water so long'. La Salle 
 helped them to cut down trees and to lay the logs 
 for the houses. 
 
 He took the new land in the name of France. 
 The country was full of wild game. The Indians 
 they met seemed to be friendly. But after a while 
 they killed two of the men. 
 
 Before long food gave out. The men grew un- 
 happy. They did not like La Salle, for they 
 thought he was too proud. Some of them sailed 
 away to Prance and took all the cannon balls, 
 leaving him with eight useless cannon. 
 
 There was one man he could trust. That was 
 Tonti. of the "iron hand." He lost his hand in a 
 fight. He wore a glove. The Indians were afraid 
 of that iron hand. 
 
 La Salle had left him witli a few of the men. 
 ISTow lie wanted to find him. They were in great 
 need of food. All the ships sent to help them 
 were lost. They had a hard time finding Tonti. 
 They had to swim the rivers, which were up ; they
 
 40 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 went through dark forests; they fought many 
 Indians. 
 
 There was one tribe of Indians the others were 
 afraid of. La Salle drew pictures on the trees as 
 they went along, like this bad tribe. Other In- 
 dians saw these and were afraid to follow him. 
 
 La Salle was sick with fever for a long time. 
 He stayed in a wigwam. The Indians were very 
 kind to him. One time they made some stones 
 hot and brought them into the wigwam, then put 
 water on them, so that he could have a steam 
 bath. This made him much better. 
 
 La Salle's men wore rawhide shoes, which they 
 had to keep wet, as they became hard about the 
 foot. Deer skin, which they sometimes bought 
 from the Indians, made nice moccasins. 
 
 In one of La Salle's trips toward the north in 
 search of the Great River, snow and sleet beat 
 down upon them. The country was covered with 
 snow. When they came to the open prairies the 
 white snow looked so bright that La Salle and 
 some of the men became snow-blind. They 
 camped near a forest, and here La Salle stayed 
 for three days. He could not see at all. His eyes 
 hurt him verv much.
 
 42 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 The snow began to melt ; the rivers were opened ; 
 the blind men could see ; and, putting their canoes 
 in the water, they went on. 
 
 Tonti was never found. A bad man got La 
 Salle in the woods by himself and shot him. This 
 man then took command of the others. Tonti 
 waited long for the brave La Salle to come. Some 
 Indians came and told him that La Salle was 
 dead. He felt so sorry that he could not keep 
 from crying. 
 
 [Find some rivers in Texas on the map.] 
 BEAK 
 
 When but a boy, Bean came to Texas with 
 jSTolan, to catch wild horses. Before they had 
 gone far some Mexicans caught them. N~olan was 
 killed and his men taken prisoners. 
 
 Bean did not want to give up, but the Mexicans 
 promised they would let them go. They were 
 chained two and two and sent to San Antonio, 
 then to the Rio Grande, and into Mexico. From 
 one prison to another they were moved. 
 
 Bean would do anvthinjj to make money. At
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 43 
 
 one place he made shoes. He made hats at an- 
 other place, and made such good hats that he got 
 all the trade. 
 
 He learned that they must have some one to 
 blast rocks, and he did that for a while. He ran 
 away from his guard, but he was soon taken back. 
 One day he hid in an empty barrel on a ship, but 
 the cook found him. 
 
 JSTow he was put into a dark cell, where he had 
 been before. What do you think was there to see 
 him ? A white lizard, which he had made a pet of. 
 
 Six years after this an order came for every 
 fifth man to be shot. By this time only five men 
 were alive. They threw dice to tell which one 
 should die. The oldest man was shot. 
 
 Bean was the only one of the others who saw 
 the light of day. He was turned out because he 
 promised to go to the Mexican army. He did for 
 a while, and then got away. 
 
 Bean fought in the Texas army with Lafitte, 
 and he was a good friend of Houston. 
 
 [An ocean is the largest body of water. A gulf 
 is an arm of an ocean. A bay is an arm of a gulf. 
 What gulf and ocean are near Texas?]
 
 44 FOOTPP.IXTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 A BOLD PIRATE. 
 
 When Lafitte was small he ran away from home 
 on a ship. Hi? father brought him back. He ran 
 away a second time, and never came home any 
 more. He became a pirate. 
 
 A pirate is one who robs a ship. 
 
 At last he came to Galveston. There he lived 
 like a great man. There were nearly a thousand 
 men with him. They had many fast ships which 
 would sail over the Gulf of Mexico and take othei 
 ships. These bold men would steal the silks, car- 
 pets, wines, gold, and beautiful skins of wild ani 
 mals. 
 
 All the goods were spread out when they got to 
 the landing and divided among the men. Lafitte 
 was not stingy; he would take only a little for 
 himself. Ships came in full of negroes, who were 
 driven into the fort and sold. 
 
 All the men loved Lafitte. He lived in a fine 
 house called the "Red House." 
 
 The Indians did not like to see these strange 
 men with ships and cannon come and take their 
 nice fishing place. In a little while they had a 
 quarrel, and some of Lafitte's men were killed.
 
 46 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 The Indians, Avhen they came over, camped at 
 the "Three Trees." When Lafitte found it out, 
 he began to fight them. They fought two or three 
 days. The Indians had to give up. This was the 
 battle of "Three Trees." 
 
 A man by the name of Long came to the island 
 and wanted Lafitte to help get people to come to 
 Texas. Lafitte would not help him. 
 
 So Long left his wife and some men at a place 
 near Galveston and went to Goliad. All of the 
 men soon got tired of waiting and left Mrs. Long. 
 She would not go with them, because she had told 
 her husband she would stay. Her two little chil- 
 dren and a negro girl were with her. Summer 
 and winter went by. She did not hear from him. 
 She had no food. The Indians would come, and 
 she would shoot them herself. She only left when 
 she heard her husband was dead. 
 
 THE TREASURE. 
 
 These pirates took our ships, so the Governor 
 said he would give $500 for their leader's head. 
 This was posted up all around. But Lafitte 
 wanted to get even, so he said he would give 
 $5000 for the Governor's head.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 47 
 
 After a little while he was ordered to leave the 
 island. He called his men, gave them each some 
 money, and having set fire to his fort, sailed away 
 in a ship called "The Pride." 
 
 Some say Lafitte buried a lot of money and 
 fine things on the island, but they have never 
 been found. 
 
 ]\fen go there and dig for them. It is said that 
 one time they dug up a great iron chest ; but just 
 as they were about to lift it out, some one spoke, 
 and it fell back. It can only be taken out in 
 silence. 
 
 One story says that on the night he left the 
 island forever, he was heard to say, as he walked 
 up and down the hall of the "Bed House" : "I 
 have buried my treasure under the 'Three Trees/ 
 In the shadow of the three lone trees I have 
 buried my treasure." Two of his men who were 
 standing outside in the dark heard him. 
 
 They stole away down the beach with spades 
 and picks. Their leader's treasure must be very 
 great, and they wanted it. They reached the spot. 
 In the pale moonlight they shoveled away the 
 sand. 
 
 At last they found a long wooden box. They
 
 48 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 opened it. "Within, instead of piles of gold and 
 silver, they saw the pale face and form of the 
 chief's beautiful young wife, who had died the 
 day before. This was the treasure of Lafitte. 
 
 [An island is land surrounded by water. Draw 
 one. What large island is off the coast of Texas? 
 Tell about the storm of 1900.] 
 
 THE FATHER OF TEXAS. 
 
 Moses Austin came to Texas to ask if he might 
 bring some people here to live. They said he 
 might. He went back home. On the way he was 
 robbed. He lived for days on nuts. 
 
 This was in winter. He was out in the cold so 
 much that he died. He left a son, Stephen, to 
 carry out his work. If your father began any 
 great work, could you carry it out for him ? 
 
 Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas, did 
 just what his father had planned to do. He was 
 a young man and very brave. 
 
 He took the land between the Colorado and 
 Brazos rivers for his men to settle. To each man 
 he gave 040 acres of land: to his wife 320 acres; 
 and 140 acres to each child.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 49 
 
 A ship called the "Lively" was sent to Austin. 
 She was full of good things to eat. She carried 
 plows and other things they needed, but she was 
 lost. 
 
 Austin had to go to Mexico to get his grant 
 again. A grant was a paper saying that he might 
 bring some white people to Texas to live. Two 
 men went with him. They all dressed like beg- 
 gars, because they were afraid of being robbed or 
 killed. They slept in the open air at night. 
 Twelve hundred miles was a long way to go on 
 foot, wasn't it? 
 
 Austin had to stay a year. He was received 
 with joy when he came back home. Some of his 
 men had left the country. Day and night they 
 had to watch for the Indians. There was no mail 
 unless a man should bring a letter or paper in 
 his pocket. 
 
 [AVhat is the capital of Texas ? Find it on the 
 map. For whom was the capital named?] 
 
 HOW THE FIRST TEXAXS LIVED. 
 
 These people lived in rude log cabins, but they 
 were honest and kind and true. Thm- ate wild
 
 50 
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 game. Deer and bear were scarce, and they had 
 to kill the wild horses for food. 
 
 There were no stores where anything could be 
 bought. The women as well as the men wore 
 buckskin clothes. They were glad to see a peddler 
 
 LOG CABTX OF AX EARLY SETTLER. 
 
 with a few yards of calico. Calico cost as much 
 as silk does now. fifty cents a yard. 
 
 Little crops of corn and cotton grew near the 
 cabins. The men were kept busy cutting down 
 trees. They planted corn in holes made with a 
 sharp stick.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 51 
 
 Some of the men would stay to guard the fam- 
 ily. The others would leave in the morning to 
 hunt food. Game was so scarce that they might 
 hunt a whole day for a deer or wild turkey and 
 come home at night without anything. 
 
 It would have made your heart sick to have 
 seen the poor little children, who had had noth- 
 ing to eat all day, watch for the hunters at night. 
 As soon as they caught the first sight of them they 
 ran out to meet them and see if they had found 
 any game. If the hunters had a deer or turkey, 
 the children were wild with delight. But if they 
 came home without food, big tears would roll 
 down the children's cheeks. 
 
 The doors were always left open, even when the 
 houses were empty. When a man rode up to a 
 house they said he found the latch-string hanging 
 out. The hopper in the hollow log was set to 
 grinding corn. The deer or bear meat was put 
 on the coals. The ash cake was baked. 
 
 After the meal and the evening pipe, the visitor 
 stretched himself on a buffalo skin with the fam- 
 ily, and slept well. When he left they said, "You 
 can pay us by coming again."
 
 53 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 [What towns in Texas are named for great 
 men ?] 
 
 AUSTIN IN MEXICO. 
 
 After some years, Texas wanted to be a free 
 State. Austin was the one she chose to go to 
 Mexico. This was aot easy to do. The Mexicans 
 were having war in their own country, and they 
 did not trust our men. 
 
 Austin's papers were sent to Congress. But he 
 had to wait so long for an answer that he wrote 
 a letter to Texas. Some one sent this letter to 
 Mexico. This made the Mexicans angry. They 
 took Austin to the city and put him in prison, 
 where for a time they would not let him have any 
 paper or pen and ink. No one could speak to 
 him, nor he with anybody. 
 
 At last, while he was in prison, they let an old 
 friend of his bring him a book and a pencil. To 
 make the time pass faster he wrote some. He 
 says : 
 
 "The walls of my cell have some pictures of 
 snakes and scenes drawn more than sixty years 
 ago.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 53 
 
 "Tonight at half -past 10 there was a very bad 
 earthquake. 
 
 "When I first came to Texas, in 1821, I had 
 a very old man with me, who was a good hunter. 
 Hardly a day passed that he did not say to me, 
 'You are too impatient ; you wish to go too fast/ 
 I saw this was a good rule. I am so sorry that I 
 did not obey this rule when I wrote my letter in 
 Mexico." 
 
 Travis sent to Mexico, asking them to let Aus- 
 tin go. He was put into a better room. And 
 there was some talk of taking him into court to 
 try him. Letters came saying Austin was not 
 friendly to Mexico, so they would not let him go. 
 
 After staying over two years, they sent him 
 home. The people who had come with Austin to 
 Texas received him as one risen from the dead. 
 He found everything was going wrong. War had 
 begun. 
 
 They wanted him for a commander, because he 
 was simple and truthful. He knew the Mexicans 
 well. He fought to make Texas free.
 
 54 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY 
 
 THE WAR. 
 
 A long time ago, many Mexicans lived in Texas. 
 Texas belonged to Mexico. Find Mexico on the 
 map. The Mexicans asked people from other 
 States to come here to live, but after a while they 
 grew jealous of these people. They said the Tex- 
 ans were not doing right. The Texans said every 
 one who wanted to be free from Mexico must take 
 up arms. This was their cry : 
 
 "To arms ! to arms ! The cry wakes the land ! 
 CHORUS. 
 
 "Arouse, ye braves ; your banners wave ! 
 
 Texans, to arms ! 
 Arouse, ye braves; jour banners wave! 
 
 Texans, to arms ! 
 From your guns an answer fling, 
 Bid the thundering echoes ring, 
 Arouse, ye braves ; your banners wave ! 
 
 Texans, to arms !"
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 55 
 
 BATTLE HYMN. 
 
 KEY OF G. 
 
 sit, d-s-dr, m-d- 
 dm, s, m d m, r- 
 slt, d-s-dr, m-d- 
 dm, s, s st, d 1| 
 
 'They are rising, they are marching 
 From the mountains and the glen, 
 
 From the prairies and savannahs, 
 A determined host of men. 
 
 ii. 
 
 They are rushing to the seaside, 
 They are forming on the plain, 
 
 Whole brigades of daring spirits 
 Men too proud to wear a chain. 
 
 in. 
 
 Songs of love and hymns of glory 
 Shall await the true and brave, 
 
 And the millions free and grateful, 
 Guard the fallen soldier's ffrave."
 
 56 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 THE FIHST BATTLE. 
 
 A long time ago, there were so many Indians 
 around Gonzales that the people asked for a gun 
 to fight them. The Mexicans gave them one. It 
 lay about the streets, upon the ground. It was 
 used to make a noise when the people got merry. 
 The Mexicans now wanted them to give up the 
 gun. They would not do it. 
 
 The cannon was buried under a peach tree. 
 The ground was plowed over. 
 
 Some of the men made shot for the cannon by 
 cutting up pieces of chains and making balls. 
 Help came. The Mexicans could not cross with 
 letters, because the ferryboat had been hidden. 
 But a man swam over with the letters. 
 
 The ferryboat was put back. Then an ox 
 wagon was fitted up and the gun raised and 
 mounted upon it. The Texans drew it to the 
 river with a flag raised above the cannon, "Come 
 and take it." 
 
 The Texans crossed the river with the cannon. 
 Then they marched up the river several miles. 
 The fog was so thick when some of our men met
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 57 
 
 the Mexicans they could not tell whether they 
 were firing at a friend or not. A little dog ran 
 among the Texans and showed where they were. 
 
 There was a loud roar of cannon. The Mexi- 
 cans fled like clouds of dust before a storm. Our 
 men took blankets and other things from them. 
 
 BEX MILAM. 
 
 "When Milam was a prisoner in Mexico, his 
 pleasant ways made the jailer like him. The 
 jailer let him take a walk to the river to bathe. 
 Milam told a friend to have a fast horse for him 
 at a certain place. He passed the guard as he 
 went to the water, walked quietly on, then jumped 
 on the horse and ran away. 
 
 A few days' hard riding brought him to Texas. 
 When he reached here he found the war begun. 
 A few men, led by Milam, made up their minds 
 to attack the fort at Goliad, then in the hands of 
 the Mexicans. This was the way they did it: 
 
 Their axes cut down the door where the colonel 
 slept, and he was taken prisoner. The guard was 
 killed. The blaze of the Mexican guns made a
 
 58 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 target for our men. They were told to give up. 
 They asked for terms. The answer was: 
 
 "No terms; come out and give up, and come 
 quick, or you will be killed, every one of you. I 
 can not keep the men hack much longer." 
 
 "Oh," shouted the Mexicans, "keep the men 
 back; we will come out at once." 
 
 They rushed out in a hurry and laid down their 
 arms. The place was taken by a handful of men. 
 
 CONCEPCIOX. 
 
 Fannin and Bowie were sent to the river to 
 choose a nice camping place. They found a beau- 
 tiful spot on the river near Concepcion.. Here 
 they camped for the night. 
 
 Next morning, about the break of day, as some 
 of the men were making fires, the Mexicans began 
 to fight. It was foggy; the Mexicans had put a 
 cannon upon a hill near by. Bowie heard the 
 cannon and waked up the men. He said: "Get 
 your guns, boys; here they come." 
 
 The Mexicans came upon Henry Karnes in the 
 dark. He fired upon them and fell back into the
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 59 
 
 camp. Fannin and Bowie told their men to make 
 the bank of the river safe, and to form and shoot 
 when they liked. As soon as it was light the 
 Texans made a way through the vines and cut 
 steps in the bluff, so as to fire over it. 
 
 The cannon shots did no harm, because the 
 Texans were hid by trees. If a man showed him- 
 self to get a shot, some one called out, "Look out ! 
 You will get shot." 
 
 Our men fired into them and they ran. Three 
 times this was done, and then the shout was heard, 
 "Charge the cannon !" Then the Texans dashed 
 up the hill and sang out, "That cannon is ours !" 
 Our rifles soon cleared the gunners from the can- 
 non. We took the cannon, and fired it upon the 
 Mexicans. This ran them off. 
 
 Mexican horsemen were put back on the road 
 about half a mile away. Their ropes were ready 
 to catch the Texans when they were driven out 
 into the open flats. They had not yet learned 
 what it was to round up a bunch of Texans. 
 They ran away with the loss of one cannon and 
 about sixtv men.
 
 GO FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 THE GRASS FIGHT. 
 
 The Texan army was at Concepcion. They 
 had a thousand men. They marched by the pow- 
 der house and camped near the head of the San 
 Antonio River, on the slope of the hill. There 
 they stayed four or five days, keeping watch 
 around the town. They thought that General 
 Cos, who was in the town, would give up. He 
 could not get anything to eat for his men or 
 horses, but he still held out. 
 
 The Mexicans sent out 300 of their horses to 
 save feed, but Travis caught them. These were 
 so poor they knew the men must have nothing to 
 eat. Many men died from hunger. Our men 
 liked to play with the cannon balls the Mexicans 
 shot at them, and then throw them back. They 
 would not let the Mexicans out to get anything 
 to eat. 
 
 Deaf Smith had been looking for the Mexican 
 general to bring money to pay the men. On that 
 morning Cos had sent some men to cut grass for 
 the horses. Having cut the grass, they were on 
 iheir way back, when Deaf Smith saw them. The
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 61 
 
 grass was in saddle-bags thrown over the backs of 
 the burros. Deaf Smith thought these bags were 
 full of gold and silver, so he ran back to tell the 
 Texans, who set up a cry. Bowie and all the 
 men ran after the burros. 
 
 They had a big fight and drove the men from 
 the dry creek and took the horses. How funny 
 they must have felt when they opened the bags 
 and found nothing but grass ! I guess they told 
 many a joke about it. 
 
 BEN" MILAM. 
 
 With old Ben Milam, .who will go, 
 
 To meet the foe in San Antonio? 
 
 Stepping out before the tent, 
 
 In truth lie was a noble man. 
 
 His hat he waved, and shouted as he went, 
 
 "Bring forth the horse !" The horse was brought ; 
 
 An eager crowd took up the cry 
 As though it were a joy to die. 
 We have not many miles to go, 
 With every now and then a blow, 
 And ten to one at least the foe.
 
 62 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 Away ! away ! and on we dash, 
 Elvers less rapid and less rash ! 
 
 We neared the river town; 'twas not so wide 
 But we could see the bounds on either side; 
 Twas studded with old live-oak trees, 
 That bent not to the roughest breeze. 
 We rustled through the leaves like wind, 
 Left shrubs and trees and men behind, 
 By night we heard them on the track, 
 Their men came hard upon our back. 
 
 We feared that we might meet some lurking spy; 
 
 Dark above us was the sky; 
 
 But through it stole a tender light, 
 
 Like the first moonrise of midnight; 
 
 'Twas scarcely yet the break of clay, 
 
 As we moved along in darkness 
 
 Between the walls of houses in the way. 
 
 By the drum, the alarm was given, 
 The cry of the Texans arose to heaven, 
 "Shoot every man who shows himself 
 Through windows, loopholes, and every way"; 
 Thus the battle lasted all day. 
 Struck in the head by a ball, 
 King-like brave Milam bore his fall.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 63 
 
 His men all silent were they, 
 As they buried him where he lay. 
 
 And let me say, of all our band, 
 Though firm of heart and strong of hand, . 
 In skirmish, march, or forage, none 
 Can less have said or more have done, 
 Than thon, Ben Mil am ! On the earth 
 So fit a one had never birth. 
 
 To sleep the sleep of death in the arms of victory., 
 And o'er thy tomb shall children weep, 
 And pray to heaven in murmurs low, 
 That peaceful be the hero's sleep; 
 Who conquered San Antonio. 
 
 For bravest of the Texas clime, 
 
 Who fought to make her children free, 
 
 Was Milam ! and his death sublime 
 Is linked with undying liberty. 
 
 IXDEPEXDEXOE DAY. 
 
 Do you know why we have a holiday on the 2d 
 of March? Because on that day the paper was 
 signed which made Texas free.
 
 T) I FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 Did you know that some boys signed that 
 paper? After that, Texas was, not under the laws 
 of Mexico any longer. That paper said many 
 things which were for the good of the people who 
 live here; some of the things were: 
 
 1. T^o man can he put in prison for debts. 
 
 2. Women and children may always keep a 
 home. 
 
 3. All children can go to school free. 
 
 Little children, you must say, "Here and here 
 has Texas helped me; how can I help Texas?" 
 You can honor and love the flag of your State. 
 Love Texas. 
 
 On Independence day of each year, let the flag 
 of our fathers, the Lone Star flag of Texas, be 
 raised upon your schoolhouse. You will soon be 
 the men and women of the State. She looks to 
 you to be true to her good works. 
 
 THE r nYTX SISTERS. 
 
 You have seen, no doubt, twin sisters, but you 
 never saw any like the ones I am going to tell 
 you about. They couldn't breathe nor feel, but if 
 you were in front of them, you would think they
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 65 
 
 were alive. Can you guess what they were ? "Well, 
 they were two brass cannon. They were made and 
 sent as a present from the people of another town 
 to help Texas. What town was it? 
 
 It was hard to send them so many miles. Hous- 
 ton sent for them twice, but there was no way of 
 sending them by land. The roads were bad; the 
 enemy was near. So they were sent by water to 
 Galveston, and at this place horses were used to 
 haul them the rest of the way. 
 
 Horseshoes and old pieces of iron were cut up 
 for shot. The Twin Sisters got after Santa 
 Anna, the Mexican general, on the day of the bat- 
 tle of San Jacinto. He came marching up. A 
 shot from the Twin Sisters brought him to a sud- 
 den halt, and he was in a hurry to fall back to 
 some trees a quarter of a mile away. 
 
 [Draw a cannon.] 
 
 THE GREAT HUXTER. 
 
 David Crockett, the mighty deer and bear 
 hunter, spent his life in the woods. 
 
 When he was a little boy his playthings were
 
 06 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 the ax and the rifle. His father tried to get him 
 to go to school, but he ran away from home be- 
 cause his teacher wanted to whip him for playing 
 "hookey."' His school was the woods; his book 
 his long rifle, "Betsy." 
 
 He dressed in buckskin. He wore a coonskin 
 cap. 
 
 Crockett's aim was certain death. A good story 
 is told of him. They say that one time when he 
 was coon hunting, seeing a coon up a tree, he 
 pointed his gun at it. The coon said: 
 
 "Is that you, Crockett? Well, you needn't 
 shoot; I'll just come down, for I know 'you'll kill 
 me." 
 
 Crockett gave his life for Texas at the Alamo. 
 
 This is the way he said you must act. Copy it : 
 "Be sure you're right ; then go ahead." 
 
 THE TEXAS SPY. 
 
 Did you ever play "I Spy?" To spy means to 
 hunt. One child shuts his eyes and the others 
 hide. He counts a hundred, then runs to find 
 them. 
 
 So, Deaf Smith was the man who went over to
 
 FOOTPRINTS OP TEXAS HISTORY. 67 
 
 the Mexican side and tried to find out what they 
 were doing, then came back and told our men. 
 
 When men had to go on a long trip, he would 
 show them the way. He led Fannin and Bowie 
 to Concepcion, and showed Milam the way through 
 the dark streets at the storming of San Antonio. 
 He was sent to meet Mrs. Dickinson on her way 
 from the Alamo. 
 
 He was at home in the woods. He was called 
 Deaf Smith because he was hard of hearing. He 
 loved to ramble alone. Pie spoke but few words. 
 
 [What did he do at San Jacinto? What did 
 he do at the Grass Fight?] 
 
 AN INDIAN FIGHTER, 
 
 Bowie was a great Indian fighter. He was six 
 feet high, not fleshy, but well made. He had a 
 fair skin and small blue eyes. He stood quite 
 straight, which made him have rather a fierce 
 look. But he was mild and quiet. He had a way 
 of making people like him. He was as strong as 
 he was daring. His brother says when he was a 
 little boy he would rope and ride alligators.
 
 '68 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 The first bowie knife was made by him. Did 
 you ever see one? It is used for hunting. But 
 Bowie killed a man with it once in a fight. Bowie 
 married a Mexican lady. Still, he always fought 
 for Texas. 
 
 THE FLAG. 
 
 At the Alamo, as the gray light of dawn came, 
 ihe flag of Travis, which was a Mexican flag, still 
 waved proudly from the walls. It was not torn 
 from its staff until the last man had fallen. 
 
 the foe may wave it, 
 For there's not a sword to save it ; 
 There is not one left to lave it 
 In the blood that heroes gave it." 
 
 [Ask your teacher to draw the six flags Texas 
 lias been under.] 
 
 '"Hurrah for the Lone Star ! Tip, up to the mast, 
 With the honored old bunting, and nail it there 
 
 fast; 
 
 When the ship is in danger, the Texans will fight 
 'Xeath the flag of the Lone Star, for God and 
 
 their right."
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 69 1 
 
 TRAVIS' LETTER FROM THE ALAMO. 
 
 This is the kind of letter Travis wrote from 
 the Alamo. YOJLI can see the letter if you go to- 
 the capitol. 
 
 "ALAMO, . 
 
 "Bexar, Fby. 24th, 1836. 
 
 "To the People of Texas and all Americans in 
 the world : 
 
 "Fellow citizens and compatriots : 
 
 "I am besieged by 1000 or more of the Mex- 
 icans under Santa Anna. I have held out under 
 a cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. 
 They have demanded a surrender, otherwise we- 
 are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken. I 
 have answered them with a cannon shot, and our 
 flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall 
 never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you 
 in the name of Liberty and everything dear to 
 Americans to come to our aid, with all dispatch. 
 The enemy is receiving more men daily and will 
 no doubt be 3000 or 4000 strong in four or five- 
 days. If this call is neglected, I will hold out as 
 long as I am able and die like a soldier who never
 
 70 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 forgets what is due to his honor and to that of 
 his country. 
 
 "Victory or death. 
 
 "WILLIAM BARRETT TRAVIS. 
 "P. S. When the enemy appeared in sight we 
 had not three bushels of corn. We have since 
 found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and 
 gotten into the walls 20 or 30 head of beeves. 
 
 "TRAVIS." 
 
 THE FALL OF THE ALAMO. 
 
 For ten days the Texans kept several thousand 
 Mexicans out. Giving up hope of any help, Travis 
 made up his mind to sell his life dearly, and, 
 drawing a line with his sword on the ground, he 
 told all who were willing to .fight with him to 
 "fall in line/' Even Bowie, who was sick, had 
 his cot carried to the line. 
 
 On the last of February, the fight began. Early 
 in the morning, a cannon ball struck the Alamo 
 near where Crockett was sleeping. He sprang up 
 and ran out on the roof. He saw a man just ready 
 to fire another shot, but Crockett shot him. He
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 71 
 
 kil]ed five men, until at last the Mexicans were 
 afraid, so they stopped firing. 
 
 For eleven days 200 men held 4000 from the 
 Alamo. At that time the building had a thick 
 stone wall around it. 
 
 On Sunday, the 6th of March, the Alamo fell 
 into the hands of the Mexicans. Santa Anna 
 had made up his mind to take the place. He put 
 his men all around the walls. Some of them 
 were afraid of the Texans. Santa Anna put them 
 in lines and put horsemen behind them to whip 
 them forward if they turned back. 
 
 At 4 o'clock that morning the Mexican bugles 
 sounded. They fought for two hours. The Mex- 
 icans were driven back twice. As fast as they 
 placed ladders against the walls, the Texans 
 killed the men and pushed the ladders over. But 
 for every Mexican who fell there were a dozen to 
 take his place. 
 
 [Where is the Alamo?] 
 11. 
 
 The brave Texans used their rifles as clubs 
 when there was no time to load them. The Mexi-
 
 72 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 cans broke in. The Texans went back into the 
 house and got behind bags of dirt, which they 
 had put in the windows and doorways, and on the 
 roofs. Mexicans were on all sides. Soon in every 
 room there was hand-to-hand fighting. 
 
 THE ALAMO. 
 
 Bowie and some others were in the hospital.. 
 As fast as the Mexicans tried to come in they 
 would shoot them down from their beds. At last 
 the Mexicans fired a cannon and scattered all the' 
 sick. Bowie was lying on the floor badly hurt. 
 A Mexican thinking him nearly dead, came up to- 
 kill him. Bowie sprang up, caught him, and
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 73 
 
 waved his big knife. The Mexican yelled as he 
 stabbed him, and both fell over dead. 
 
 In another part of the Alamo, Travis, Crockett, 
 and others had been driven into a corner of a 
 room. Backs to the wall they were fighting with 
 bloody knives and guns and clubs. Their faces 
 were cut and full of blood. Twenty dead Mexi- 
 cans lay around Crockett. The Mexican General 
 was sorry for him and wanted to save him because 
 he was so brave, so he called to him to give up 
 and went to Santa Anna asking for quarter for 
 him. 
 
 Santa Anna replied, "All must be shot." 
 Crockett read his answer from his face and rushed 
 upon him, knife in hand, but he never reached 
 him. When he had taken a few steps they riddled 
 him with bullets. The other men had the same 
 fate, and the Alamo was taken. Not one of the 
 brave men was left to tell the story. Their bodies 
 were put outside the walls. Wood was thrown 
 on them, and they were burned to ashes. 
 
 The only people who got away were the two 
 negro slaves of Travis and Bowie, and Mrs. Dick- 
 inson and little Emily, the "Child of the Alamo."
 
 74 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 FANNIK. 
 
 When Fannin, who was near Goliad, heard that 
 the Mexicans were coming, he had so few men he 
 thought hest to leave the fort. 
 
 Fire was set to the houses. The wagons were 
 loaded. The drums called the men, and away 
 they marched. 
 
 Three miles from G-oliad, Fannin stopped to let 
 his tired horses get some grass. AVhen they began 
 to march they saw the Mexican arms shining 
 through the woods. An army was coming. The 
 men made a hollow square. The wagons and 
 other things were in the middle. The cannon 
 could not he used, because there was no water to 
 sponge them with. 
 
 Fannin was hurt, but lie kept on fighting. 
 Many a man fought when lie could hardly 
 stand up. 
 
 One boy named Hal, only 15 years old, had his 
 thigh broken by a ball. He asked Mrs. Cash, a 
 lady who was with them, to help him into her 
 cart. She fixed a prop for him to lean against 
 and a rest for his rifle. He fired awav until an-
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 75 
 
 other ball broke his right arm. But he had killed 
 four Mexicans. 
 
 "You may take me down now, mother. I have 
 done my part. They have paid two men for every 
 one of the balls in me." 
 
 FANNIIT. 
 
 Fannin was at Goliad with 400 men. He wrote 
 many times for help. In one of his letters he 
 said: "Do send some money, and clothes and 
 shoes for the men. The guard marched off bare- 
 footed yesterday." 
 
 Fannin had sent some of his men to help King, 
 who was a few miles away. Most of King's men 
 were killed. Some got away by reaching the 
 woods and swimming the river. They made their 
 way, hiding by day and moving on by night. 
 
 The next morning Houston sent Fannin word 
 to blow up the fort and leave the place, and to 
 bring away as many guns as he could, and sink 
 the rest in the river. He at once made ready to 
 obey. The guns were buried. The men got the 
 horses and carts ready. While they were going.
 
 76 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 they met the Mexicans. One man, who was a 
 doctor, says: 
 
 "A spy came in and told us a large army was 
 coining. We dug up our cannon and more guards 
 were put on for the night. But they did not sur- 
 prise us that night. 
 
 "We went back to the fort. Our horses wanted 
 food, so we stopped to graze them. The Mexi- 
 cans ran after us. We made a hollow square. We 
 were told not to fire until they came near. 
 
 "They hegan firing. Fannin was shot, but not 
 much hurt. Our guns had now become hot and 
 we had no water to sponge them with. We ha,d 
 to use our other arms. We had many hurt and 
 killed. We would not try to cut our way through 
 the Mexican lines. 
 
 "They were in the woods in front of us. We 
 could not get awuy in the night, because there 
 was no way to take our sick. The horses had 
 been killed. We would not leave sick men. The 
 Mexicans got help. 
 
 "At last we raised a white flag. Fannin, who 
 was lame, then went out with the flag. He agreed 
 to give up if they would treat his men as prison-
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 77 
 
 ers of war, and send them home. They signed 
 the paper. 
 
 "We gave up our arms. They took us back to 
 Goliad. We reached there a little after sunset 
 and were driven into the church. Many of the 
 men could play well on the flute. That evening 
 they played 'Home, Sweet Home.' Poor men, it 
 was their last evening. 
 
 "On Sunday, the 27th of March, a man called 
 us up and said he wanted the men to form a 
 line, that they might be counted. I thought some 
 one had ran away. 
 
 "Our men were put into four companies and 
 marched out, each company in a different way. 
 Some of them Avere told they were wanted to kill 
 beef, others that they were to be sent home. 
 
 "In about half an hour we heard firing towards 
 the river. I asked what it was. The Mexican 
 with me said, 'T do not know, but think it is the 
 guards firing off their guns.' 
 
 " 'Are thev killing our men ?' I asked. 
 
 *J O 
 
 " 'Yes,' he answered ; 'I did not give the order.' 
 
 ''When a little way from the walls, they were 
 
 halted and shot. I could see the heads of some of
 
 78 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 the men through the peach trees and could hear 
 their screams. They were told to sit down, with 
 their backs to the guard. One man said : 'Boys, 
 they are going to kill us ! Die with your faces to 
 them like men.' 
 
 "Fannin was the last man to be shot. He said 
 that he did not care to live after his men had 
 been shot. He acted like a soldier. He handed 
 his watch to the man and asked that he should 
 be shot in the heart and not in the head. He 
 was put in a chair and shot in the head. 
 
 "Nearly all were killed. The Mexicans went 
 around and cut up the wounded. 
 
 "Many tried to get away, but were run down 
 or shot. A few got away by lying clown and 
 making out as if they were dead until dark. 
 
 "One of the men was shot, stabbed, and beaten 
 over the head with a gun and left for dead. He 
 was stunned for a while, but when it grew dark 
 he came to and crawled to the creek for water." 
 
 THE RUNAWAYS. 
 
 The news of the fall of the Alamo made the 
 women get their children and start for a place
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 79 
 
 where they would be safe. Any kind of a rig was 
 used for travel. Carriages, wagons, oxcarts were 
 piled up with bedding and babies, the women 
 driving or going on foot or on horseback, as 
 they could. 
 
 A family would leave a meal on the table to 
 go with the rush, and the next one who came by 
 would snatch it. Smokehouses were left open for 
 the hungry to get what they wanted. A feather 
 bed would be on a pony and the children tied to 
 it. The prairie at times was white with feathers 
 from beds, and the road filled with things the 
 people had lost. 
 
 While camping for the night, there came up a 
 rain. The women in camp gathered around a sick 
 woman and held blankets over her to keep her 
 dry and warm. 
 
 It had been raining and the roads were full of 
 mud. Many women and children were walking 
 barefooted and bareheaded. 
 
 One woman had her cart stuck in the mud. It 
 was one of those carts with wheels cut from a 
 large tree ; the rough body was put on with wooden 
 pegs and covered with a sheet. The oxen were
 
 80 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 lying in the water with their noses out for air. 
 The woman with two little girls sat waiting for 
 help. At last .she drove her oxen out herself. 
 Cracking her whip, she called to them. "Rise, 
 Buck ! .Rise, Ball ! Now is the time to do your 
 best." And Buck and Ball arose. 
 
 At the cry of Mexicans, anything and every- 
 thing would be thrown off to make the wagons 
 light, and the horses whipped into a run. 
 
 After a long march in a cold rain, the runaways 
 halted ; the women said they could not go another 
 step. They could bear no more. Rest, only rest, 
 was their cry. 
 
 On the 22d of April, 1836, as the sun shone 
 out, the booming of cannon came faintly across 
 the prairie. The children were asleep under the 
 trees. The old men were asleep around the fires. 
 
 A woman began to clap her hands and shout. 
 They saw a man riding for life towards the camp; 
 his horse was covered with foam, and he was wav- 
 ing his hand and shouting: "San Jacinto ! San 
 Jacinto ! The Mexicans are whipped and Santa 
 Anna a prisoner!" People laughed and cried at 
 the same time, they were so happy. They all 
 went back to their homes.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 81 
 
 BUBNTNG OP GONZALES. 
 
 The guns were thrown into the river and the 
 town of Gonzales was burned to keep Santa Anna 
 from taking it. 
 
 One of the men who helped to burn it, said : 
 
 "Captain Carnes then told us that we must 
 burn the town, and that not a roof large enough 
 to shelter a Mexican's head was to be left. We 
 divided into two parties, one party to begin at 
 one end of the town, the other at the other end, 
 and meet. There were some four or five men in 
 each party, and we made quick work of it. The 
 houses were of wood. In a few minutes the flames 
 began their work, and by dawn every house was 
 burning. 
 
 "It was so sad. Some of the houses the people 
 had just left. They had left everything. They 
 were without a dollar or a friend on earth. Many 
 children had lost their fathers at the Alamo; 
 fathers had lost sons; brothers had lost brothers."
 
 82 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 SAN JACINTO. 
 i. 
 
 Houston went to follow the enemy. On the 
 20th day of April the Texans halted and went 
 into camp. Early in the morning of the 21st, 
 Houston told a man to give Deaf Smith one or 
 more axes, and to have them at a certain place. 
 
 At the same time he sent for Smith and told 
 him not to go out of the lines that day without 
 asking him, as he had some secret work for him 
 to do. 
 
 About 9 o'clock that morning they found that 
 the Mexicans under General Cos were coming 
 from Vince's bridge toward their camp. 
 
 The Texans held a council of war. The ques- 
 tion was, whether they would fight the enemy or 
 wait for them to fight.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 83 
 
 Deaf Smith and a man whom Houston had 
 chosen were now sent for. The axes were given 
 to them to cut down Vince's bridge and burn it. 
 
 Houston said : "This green grass will be blood- 
 red before you return, unless you hurry." 
 
 He wanted this bridge cut down to keep the 
 Mexicans from getting more men. Our Texas 
 troops were lively. They were eager to fight and 
 could hardly keep their hands from their guns. 
 They formed in line of battle near the San Ja- 
 cinto River without being seen by the enemy. 
 The Mexicans were enjoying their "siesta," or 
 evening nap. Santa Anna was asleep. 
 
 While the Texans were coming, Deaf Smith 
 rode up as fast as he could to the front and told 
 Houston that the bridge was gone. 
 
 n. 
 
 Houston then told the men. The "Twin Sis- 
 ters," those famous little cannon, opened fire. 
 Pop ! pop ! pop ! Boom ! boom ! boom ! 
 
 The whole line cried, "Remember the Alamo! 
 Remember Goliad !" 
 
 The Texans made no halt onward they went.
 
 84 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 The Mexicans fled, but the Texans followed them 
 into the woods. Before they could form in line 
 the Texans jumped over their breastworks and 
 took their cannon. Many of the Mexicans ran 
 away and many of them were killed. 
 
 Finding the bridge down, some crossed in the 
 bog. Others stayed on the prairie. In fifteen 
 minutes they gave way. Some ran to some trees 
 near by, where they gave up their arms. 
 
 Their cannon were left loaded; all their fine 
 things were left. Men and horses, dead and dy- 
 ing, formed a bridge on which others passed over. 
 Some cried out, "Me no Alamo ! "Me no Goliad !" 
 
 III. 
 
 On the morning of the 22d, some soldiers found 
 Santa Anna ten miles from camp. They went as 
 far as Yince's bridge. Not finding the rest of the 
 party, they did not know whether to go on to the 
 Brazos or to return to camp. Thirty of the party 
 agreed to go on. They went down Buffalo Bayou. 
 
 Burleson had given orders not to kill any 
 prisoners, but to bring all into camp. Before they 
 had gone far, they saw some four or five deer on
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 85 
 
 the west side of a branch. They rode- on within 
 forty or fifty yards of the branch, when they 
 halted. 
 
 The deer started, and on looking to the right 
 they saw a Mexican going towards the bridge. 
 He stopped a moment to look and then went on. 
 They rode up to where he was. As soon as he 
 saw them he lay down in the grass, which was 
 high enough to hide him from them. When they 
 came to the spot he was lying on his side with a 
 blanket over his face. 
 
 They told him to get up, but he only uncovered 
 his face ; then he rose and stood up for a moment. 
 Finding soldiers all around him, he wanted to 
 shake hands. One of them gave him his hand. 
 He pressed it and kissed it. He then offered 
 them as a bribe a fine gold watch, jewels, and a 
 large sum of money. Would you have taken this 
 bribe? Well, these Texans did not take it. 
 
 "Where is your brave Houston?" he said. 
 
 "He is in camp," they replied. "Who are you ?" 
 
 "I am a private soldier." 
 
 Seeing the fine studs in his shirt, they pointed 
 toward them.
 
 86 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 "1 am an aide to Santa Anna," he said, and 
 burst into a flood of tears. 
 
 "Don't be afraid: you shall not be hurt." 
 
 Dressed in common clothes, no arms, not able 
 to walk, he rode two or three miles into camp. 
 General Houston was lying on a blanket at the 
 root of a tree, with a saddle for a pillow. 
 
 The prisoner walked up to him. Houston was 
 lying on his left side, partly asleep, with his face 
 turned away. Houston knew it was Santa Anna, 
 and told him to sit down on a chest near by. 
 
 Santa Anna said : "General Houston, what will 
 you do with me?" 
 
 Houston answei'ed : "You must drive all the 
 Mexicans over the Rio Grande. Why were you so 
 cruel to the Texans at the Alamo?" 
 
 "I followed the laws of war," said Santa, Anna. 
 
 "How about the killing of Fannin and his men? 
 They had given up," said Houston. 
 
 Santa Anna said : "I had made no treaty with 
 Fannin. I had to obey orders." 
 
 Houston said : "There was a treaty made with 
 Fannin. You could have done as you pleased." 
 
 It being night, General Houston gave Santa
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 87 
 
 Anna a camp bed in his tent. He could not sleep, 
 because he was afraid of being killed. Houston 
 saved him. The soldiers wanted to kill him be- 
 cause he had been so* cruel. 
 
 The sword that Santa Anna wore in the battle 
 of San Jacinto was found stuck in the ground 
 and broken off. It was worth $7000. His shirt 
 studs had his name on them and were worth 
 $1 700. The Texans took his camp furniture, rich 
 and splendid ; silver tea pots, cream pitchers, 
 china with his name on it, and cut glass bottles 
 with gold stoppers. 
 
 The glad news went all over the country. 
 "San Jacinto ! San Jacinto ! The Mexicans are 
 whipped and Santa Anna a prisoner! Texas is 
 free at last !" 
 
 A GREAT MAX. 
 
 San Houston dressed just like the Indians. In 
 all pictures of him he is shown wearing a big 
 blanket and a felt hat. He was received into their 
 cabins as a friend and a brother. He spoke their 
 language. He liked the wild life of the Indians.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 Once when he was with them, his brother 
 wanted him to come home, but he said: 
 
 "I would rather stay in the woods and measure 
 deer tracks than stay in a store and measure 
 cloth." 
 
 One day his mother, handing him his gun from 
 the cabin door, said: "There, my son, take this 
 gun, and never disgrace it; for remember, I had 
 rather all my sons should fill one grave than that 
 one of them should turn his back to save his life. 
 Go, and remember, too. that while the door of 
 my cabin is open to all brave men, it is shut on 
 all cowards." 
 
 In a fight with the Indians once, an arrow 
 stuck deep in his side. He got down from his 
 horse and called out to one of the men to pull 
 out the arrow. The man tried and could not, it 
 was so deep in the flesh. Drawing back his sword 
 over his head, Houston roared to him, "Draw out 
 the arrow. If you fail, I will kill you on the 
 spot." 
 
 This time the man pulled out the arrow, leav- 
 ing an ugly wound, from which the blood gushed 
 in a stream. 
 
 Houston taught a school for a while. The chil-
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 89 
 
 (lien paid him from six to eight dollars a year. 
 Sometimes they paid corn instead of money. 
 Children liked his smile. He was fond of play- 
 ing with them and telling them stories. He liked 
 to whittle, and had his knife out all the time. 
 He made toys in church for children. 
 
 He ruled Texas at the head of the army. He 
 was the first President of Texas. He was a great 
 man. He learned not only to rule men, but to 
 rule his tongue, which is much harder to do. 
 
 Even when he was a great man, he lived simply 
 in a log cabin. On his table he often had only 
 bread and black coffee and wild game. 
 
 He was the man for the times, the man that 
 Texas needed. 
 
 His last words were, "Texas ! Texas !" 
 
 [Look on a map and bound Texas.] 
 
 A LETTER FROM HOUSTON. 
 
 A letter from Houston to the Red Bear and 
 other chiefs : 
 
 WASHINGTON, October 13, 1842. 
 My Brothers : 
 
 The path between us is open : it has become
 
 90 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 white. We wish it to remain open, and that it 
 shall no more be stained with blood. 
 
 Clouds no longer hang over us, but the sun 
 gives light to our footsteps. Darkness is taken 
 away from us, and we can look at each other as 
 friends. 
 
 I send men with my talk. They will give it to 
 you. My Red Brother will tell you I am for 
 peace. They listened to my words and were not 
 troubled. A bad chief came in my place, and told 
 them lies, and did them much harm. 
 
 You wish to kill the buffalo for your women 
 and children. There are many in Texas, and we 
 wish you to enjoy them. 
 
 Your Great Father and ours wishes the red men 
 and the people of Texas to be brothers. Let us 
 be like brothers and bury the tomahawk forever. 
 Let the war whoop be no more heard on our 
 prairies. 
 
 Let songs of joy be heard upon our bills. 
 In our valleys let there be laughter, and in our 
 wigwams let the voices of our women and children 
 be heard. Let trouble be taken away far from us ;
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 91 
 
 and when our warriors meet together, let them 
 smoke the pipe of peace and be happy. 
 Your Brother, 
 
 SAM HOUSTON. 
 
 BONNIE BLUE FLAG. 
 
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 With loyal hearts we greet you, 
 
 Land of the star and flower, 
 First 'mid your sister States you stand 
 
 In majesty and power. 
 From North and South and East and West 
 
 The cry resounds afar, 
 Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag 
 
 That bears a single star. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah, 
 
 For the bonnie blue flag hurrah, 
 Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag 
 
 That bears a single star.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 For Texas is a "friend" indeed, 
 
 And faithful to her trust; 
 She welcomes upon Freedom's soil 
 
 The true, the brave, the just. 
 But should a foeman's treachery 
 
 Attempt her rights to mar, 
 We'll hoist on high the honnie blue flag 
 
 That bears a single star. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 [Draw the Bonnie Blue Flag.] 
 
 "TEXAS." 
 
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 "Can you count the stars that nightly 
 Twinkle in the midnight sky? 
 God, the Lord, doth mark their number, 
 With His eyes that never slumber, 
 For Pie made them every one. 
 For He made them every one.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 93 
 
 Do you know how many children 
 Rise each morning bright and fair? 
 God, the Lord, doth mark their number, 
 With His eyes that never slumber, 
 For He loves them every one. 
 For He loves them every one. 
 
 When we see the many blossoms 
 
 Waving o'er this land so fair, 
 
 We would thank Thee, Lord in duty, 
 
 For their fragrance and their beauty, 
 
 For we love them every one. 
 
 For we love them every one." 
 
 THE AVAR WITHOUT ANY BLOOD. 
 
 This was a war about the papers. One day, 
 at Austin, the men, women, and children ran into 
 the streets, looking very angry. 
 
 "What's the matter?" said a tall hunter who 
 had just come in. He saw a small cannon in the 
 street, and a company of soldiers who were guard- 
 ing some wagons. 
 
 "Matter enough," said the men. "Old Sam has
 
 94 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 changed the capital back to Houston and sent for 
 the papers. We won't let them go." 
 
 Forty men with wagons came to bring the 
 papers. As they were loading the boxes into the 
 wagons at the Land Office a cannon was pointed 
 to the building. It was touched off by a lady, 
 but no one was hurt. 
 
 They got away with some of the papers. The 
 wagons were overtaken and the papers brought 
 back to Austin. Some men in Austin shaved the 
 manes and tails of the rogues' horses and drove 
 
 them off. 
 
 THE CART WAR. 
 
 Mexicans were hired to carry goods from San 
 Antonio to other towns. The merchants hired 
 them because they would work cheap. They were 
 honest and did good work. 
 
 The Texas wagoners tried to drive the Mexicans 
 out by saying they were going to kill them. They 
 drove their oxen off. Their carts they broke up. 
 They had many fights. Often the drivers were 
 killed. 
 
 These teamsters had a hard time. One day one
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 95 
 
 of them went into a thicket to get a stick for an 
 ox whip. While he was cutting it, a lion sprang 
 upon him. The man scared him away once by 
 popping his whip. When he came a second time 
 they were ready for him., and while he sat "down 
 to lick the blood off, the men got away. They 
 had fresh meat, which made the wolves follow 
 them. They had to frighten them away by throw- 
 ing fire at them. 
 
 THE BLACK AND WHITE BEANS. 
 
 At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Texans came 
 marching up and gave up their arms. They had 
 been wounded at Mier. After a long march they 
 halted and fed their horses. Five days were spent 
 in trying to make their way through the moun- 
 tains. They could get neither water nor food. 
 They killed and ate their horses. 
 
 Many of the people became crazy, and ran off 
 or fell down. At last they saw smoke, and found 
 it to be a Mexican camp. Their arms had been 
 thrown away and they were too tired to fight. 
 So they gave up, hoping the Mexicans would treat 
 them well.
 
 96 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 An order came from Santa Anna that every 
 tenth man should he shot. All were put in irons 
 and well guarded. How were they to find out 
 who should be the tenth man? 
 
 Their plan was this : They were drawn up to 
 a wall. Behind it stood an officer with a pitcher. 
 In it were one hundred and fifty-nine white beans 
 and seventeen black ones. The pitcher was held 
 up so that those drawing could not look into it. 
 
 As their names were called, they came up and 
 drew a bean. All of them looked brave and cheer- 
 ful. The black beans meant they must die. The 
 irons were taken off from those who had drawn 
 them, and that evening they were led out to be 
 shot. 
 
 The Mexicans tied them together and tied 
 handkerchiefs over their eyes. They wanted to 
 stand up and be shot in front, because that seemed 
 brave, but they were made to sit down upon a 
 log near the wall with their backs to the soldiers. 
 There, just before dark, they were shot in turn. 
 The Mexicans kept shooting until all were killed.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OP TEXAS HISTORY. 97 
 
 DRAWING BEAXS. 
 
 How would you like to draw beans for your. 
 lives? The Mexicans wanted to kill Captain Cam- 
 eron, a Texan they had caught, and were in hopes 
 that lie would draw a black bean. To make this 
 almost certain the black ones were placed on top 
 and he was made to draw first, but the others 
 came in order of the first letter of their names. 
 
 As he reached for the pitcher, which was held 
 so high that no one could see into it, one of the 
 men said, "Dip deep, Captain." Cameron ran 
 his fingers to the bottom, and pulled out a white 
 bean. The Texans were pleased, for they all 
 loved him. The drawing now went on. All 
 "dipped deep, 1 " and it was some time before a 
 black bean was drawn. 
 
 ITow their hearts bled when a black bean was 
 held up by a dear friend who had stood by them 
 in battle or in the mountain wilds. Xow he must 
 die. far from home and the loved ones there. 
 
 One young boy was sick and not able to stand 
 in line to draw his bean, and the pitcher had to 
 be brought to him. Before his time came to draw
 
 98 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 lie told his brother that if he himself drew a white 
 bean and his brother a black one, lie wanted to 
 be shot instead of him. But both 'drew white 
 beans and lived to go home. 
 
 As the drawing went on, the chances for Wal- 
 lace grew less, his letter, "\\V coming last. Tht 
 boys had "dipped deep" until nearly all the white 
 beans had been dipped out. When he drew there 
 were a many black beans in the jar as white ones 
 When his time came his hand was so laige ho 
 could hardly get it down to the beans, and they 
 were so scarce he took two. up against the side of 
 the jar and got them between his. fingers and felt 
 of them. lie knew that the black beans were a 
 little larger than the white ones. 
 
 The Mexicans were watching him closely and 
 told him to hurry up, and that if he pulled out 
 two beans and one- was black he would have to 
 take it. "Big Foot" did not mind what they said. 
 Life was at stake now. 
 
 After feeling the beans a few seconds one 
 seemed to be a little larger than the other, and 
 he let it go. The one he pulled out was white, 
 but he knew the other was black. The next four
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 99 
 
 men to draw after him drew black beans. The 
 black beans were now all out. and the last three 
 men on the list did not draw. A man turned up 
 the jar and three white beans fell to the ground. 
 
 The irons were now taken off, and the men who 
 drew the black beans were led away to death. The 
 rest were sent to the City of Mexico. They were 
 driven like cattle, and starved. They were 
 laughed at by people on the way. 
 
 On the march, after the chains were taken off, 
 Wallace made good use of his long arms. Some 
 say he had the longest arms of any man they ever 
 saw outside of a show. He would reach and get 
 cakes and tamales from stands as they passed 
 them. The owners would make a great outer}', 
 but the soldiers would laugh. 
 
 Sometimes they would meet a man carrying a 
 tray of good things on his head. Wallace was so 
 much taller than the Mexican that he could get 
 a handful of things and the owner would be none 
 the wiser. He could pass a cake stand and then 
 reach back and get cakes from it. 
 
 After a while some Texans who had been sent 
 to Santa Fe met with the Mier men. Thev were
 
 100 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 prisoners, too. The brave Dr. Brenham and others 
 planned to kill the guard and get away from Sa- 
 lado. They knew it meant death to the first man 
 to attack the guard. Brenham marched up and 
 gave his life so the others could get away. That 
 is the bravest thing a man can do. 
 
 PRISONERS. 
 
 We can not tell all these brave men did for 
 Texas. When they were on the mountains, for 
 days they had no water nor food. They killed 
 and ate their horses. The men drank the blood. 
 
 Wallace killed a mule he had taken from a 
 Mexican, and they ate the meat and drank the 
 red blood. The horses died. All were now on 
 foot. Many died on the rocks on top of the 
 mountains. Most of the guns were thrown away. 
 
 Some men would fall down with their feet 
 pointing the way they wished to go. Wallace had 
 some mule meat, which he had dried in the sun. 
 He would eat some of that until he got so thirsty 
 he could eat it no longer. His tongue was dry. 
 For five or more days he kept on without water.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 101 
 
 The Mexicans who were on their trail caught 
 them at last. They gave them only a little water 
 at a time for fear it would kill them. They were 
 tied with ropes and marched on. 
 
 WALLACE A PRISONER IN MEXICO. 
 
 AVhen they came near Mexico an order came 
 from Santa Anna to shoot Cameron. That night 
 they put him in a room alone. The others were 
 crowded together in a small room. They thought 
 that the Mexicans were going to kill their cap- 
 tain. 
 
 When they were all marched out the next morn- 
 ing to a tank to wash, each man filled his shirt 
 full of rocks and made up his mind to fight. 
 When asked why they were getting the rocks, they 
 said so that they could walk better. The Mexi- 
 cans said the captain was coming on. They heard 
 guns firing, and knew that he had been shot. 
 
 They stayed in Mexico nearly a year. They 
 worked the streets in chains. Some of their work 
 was to carry sand in sacks to make a fine road up 
 a hill to Santa Anna's house. Sometimes they
 
 102 FOOTPRINTS OP TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 would play off by making holes in their sacks and 
 letting the sand run out as they went along. 
 
 Some of them got away by climbing a wall. 
 The rest were put in a dark, damp room. The 
 air was so bad that some of them died. Wallace 
 and others went wild and had to be tied down. 
 Wallace was called the madman. 
 
 As soon as he was able he was put to work 
 again. Sometimes they hitched twenty-five to a 
 cart and made them haul rock from the moun- 
 tains down to town. The Texans let three carts 
 get away from them on the side of the mountain 
 and they were smiashed to pieces by running off 
 a bluff. 
 
 One time they hitched Wallace to a cart alone 
 to haul sand to town. Just for fun he made as if 
 he was scared at something; he gave a loud snort 
 and ran away. He ran against things and tore 
 the cart all to pieces before he could be stopped. 
 
 There was a wall five feet thick around the 
 prison, but they tried to dig under it. They dug 
 at night and hid the dirt as best they could. Some 
 of the dirt was carried in their clothes and scat- 
 tered on the streets the next day. In this way
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 103 
 
 twenty-four men got out; but the plot was found 
 out before the others could go. 
 
 Chains were put upon all of them again. They 
 were made to work harder. Many nights now 
 passed .away, and clanking chains could be heard 
 at all hours of the night. Eats came into the 
 den, and the Texans were so near starved that 
 they caught and ate them. When the sound of 
 a rat was heard hitting the floor, chains would 
 rattle all over the cell, as each man was trying to 
 catch him. 
 
 Friends of these men in Texas were trying all 
 the time to get them free. 
 
 Santa, Anna's wife was a good, kind woman. 
 On her deathbed, she asked that he would set these 
 men free, and for once in his life he kept his word. 
 
 THE TEXAS SEAL. 
 
 Do you know what the Texas seal is? What 
 does the State have printed on all of the paper 
 used in the capitol? The Texas seal is made 
 of a star of five points with olive and live-oak 
 branches around it. Around the star and wreath
 
 104 
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 THE TEXAS SEAL. 
 
 "The State of Texas" is printed: This is the way 
 Texas signs her name, as you sign yours at the 
 end of a letter or paper. 
 
 [Draw a Texas seal.] 
 
 A TEXAS NORTHER. 
 
 In Texas we do not often have ice or snow. 
 So mild are the winters that grass stops growing 
 only for a short time, and there is enough at all 
 timles to keep the cattle fat. The northers make 
 the only winter in Texas. 
 
 Just before a norther it is very warm. Far 
 to the north you can see a little black cloud. It
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 105 
 
 lifts and shoots out great black arms. It seems 
 a thing of life. The black cloud covers half the 
 sky. Cattle hurry to shelter. 
 
 Suddenly a cold wind comes down like a rush- 
 ing flood. It seems as if it had been caged in 
 caves of ice or swept miles over fields of snow. 
 Before you can put on more clothes, you are 
 chilled. 
 
 Let your lungs drink it in. It is full of elec- 
 tricity. If you rub a cat's back in a dark corner 
 after a norther, you will see a number of sparks 
 flash from her. 
 
 The northers come from the months of Novem- 
 ber to March. 
 
 THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. 
 
 In the great four years' war, the North wore 
 the blue and the South wore the gray. Sons 
 fought against their fathers. Can you sing 
 "Dixie," the song of the South, and "Yankee 
 Doodle," the song of the North? All the men 
 and even the boys went to war. The mammas 
 and little girls stayed at home and made their
 
 106 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 own cloth, shoes, and gloves. They even made 
 cartridges. 
 
 Drinks were made of parched potatoes, or burnt 
 peas, and roots. Tea and coffee cost so much 
 that only the sick could have therm 
 
 One time during the war, the men of the South 
 took a ship called the "Harriet Lane" from the 
 North. This ship was lying near the wharf at 
 Galveston. The South lost only twelve men. The 
 North lost one hundred and fifty men. 
 
 There were two young soldiers hurt. One fell 
 fighting for the South. The other dropped on 
 the deck of the "Harriet Lane" under the shadow 
 of the Stars and Stripes. 
 
 The first was Sidney Sherman, the son of him 
 who fought at San Jacinto. He was only a boy. 
 As he lay dying, his lips parted in a smile. His 
 blue eyes grew soft and tender. "Break this 
 gently to my mother," were Ins last words. 
 
 The young soldier of the North was Edward 
 Lea, on the "Harriet Lane." He heard his name 
 spoken. He opened his eyes. His father, who 
 had fought for the South, was kneeling beside 
 him. On this New Year's day, father and son
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 107 
 
 fought against each other. The pale face of the 
 young man lighted with joy; and when the doc- 
 tor told him he had but a moment to live, he said 
 with his last breath, "My father is here." 
 
 Edward's father read his burial service, as there 
 was no one else to do it. 
 
 EVERYTHING COST MORE DURING THE 
 WAR THAN IT DOES NOW. 
 
 SOME WAR-TIME NUMBER WORK. 
 
 1. A soldier paid 200 dollars for his gun and 
 4000 dollars for his horse. How much did both 
 cost him? 
 
 2. At 20 dollars a, pound, how much coffee 
 can you buy for 40 dollars? 
 
 3. If one hat costs 120 dollars, how much 
 would four hats cost? 
 
 4. If one pair of boots for a bo}^ cost 75 dol- 
 lars, how much would two pairs cost? 
 
 5. If it took five yards to make a little girl's 
 best dress, and her mamma paid 40 dollars a yard, 
 how much did the dress cost?
 
 108 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 YOUNG SIDNEY SHERMAN, 
 i. 
 
 Pillow his head on his flashing sword, 
 
 Who fell ere the fight was won, 
 'The turf looks red where his life was poured 
 
 He fell beside his gun! 
 
 II. 
 
 For liberty claimed his parting breath, 
 
 And fame his last trumpet cry: 
 Yes, Freedom hath torn his young name from 
 Death 
 
 The brave can never die. 
 
 in. 
 
 T5ut his life grew faint when the storm raged high 
 
 And ebbed with the dawning sun, 
 And there on the field of victory 
 
 He fell beside his gun ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 or a care will live in the father's breast, 
 
 And a grief in the mother's eye, 
 And a gloom on the silent heart will rest, 
 
 A orloom that can never die !
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 109 
 
 V. 
 
 Yes, liberty shrined his parting breath, 
 
 And Texas his fainting cry; 
 Yes, Fame hath torn his young nairie from death, 
 
 For the brave can never die! 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then pillow his head on his flashing sword, 
 
 Who fell where the field was won; 
 The turf was red where his life was poured 
 
 He fell beside his gun. 
 
 THE FIEST RAILROAD IN TEXAS. 
 
 Children, you must remember Sherman not 
 only as a brave soldier, but as the father of the 
 railroad in Texas. The first road was named for 
 him. JSTow we can go many miles on the train. 
 All the big cities are joined by rail. 
 
 Sherman fought in the battTe of San Jacinto. 
 He first gave the cry of "Remember the Alamo !" 
 "Remember Goliad !" 
 
 Some ladies sent Sherman's wife the flag which 
 was waved at San Jacinto. It was made of white
 
 110 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 silk with gold fringe, and had the figure of a 
 lady on it. The family kept it for years. After 
 a while they put it into a glass case, because it 
 was so torn, and gave it to the State. You can 
 see it at the capitol. 
 
 A TRUE SOLDIER. 
 
 A. S. Johnston was a great soldier. 
 
 Mexico did not want Texas to join her lone star 
 to the United States, so the war began again. 
 
 Johnston fought over in Mexico. The Texans 
 at Monterey broke open doors, knocked down 
 walls, and shot many Mexicans. The city gave 
 up after three days' fighting. 
 
 Johnston made his home in Austin for many 
 years. 
 
 He fought bravely for the South, until he re- 
 ceived a wound in his leg. He did not think 
 anything about it, until, faint from the loss of 
 blood, he had to be lifted from his horse. 
 
 He died on the battlefield, as a true soldier 
 would like to die.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. Ill 
 
 DEATH OF ALBEET SIDNEY JOHNSTON. 
 
 The sun was sinking o'er the battle plain, 
 Where night winds soft were sighing, 
 
 While, with smiling lips, near his war-horse slain, 
 Lay a valiant chieftain dying. 
 
 n. 
 
 And as he sank to his long, last rest, 
 The banner once o'er him streaming, 
 
 He folded 'round his most gallant breast, 
 On the couch that knows no dreaming. 
 
 III. 
 
 Proudly he lay on the battlefield, 
 
 On the banks of the noble river; 
 And the crimson stream from his veins did yield, 
 
 Without a pang or quiver. 
 
 TV. 
 
 There were friends who came to bind his wounds, 
 There were eyes o'er the soldier streaming, 
 
 A? he raised his head from the bloody ground, 
 Where mar.v a brave was dreaming.
 
 112 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 
 
 V. 
 
 "Now, away," he cried, "your aid is vain, 
 My soul will not brook recalling; 
 
 I have seen the tyrant enemy slain, 
 And like autumn vine leaves falling. 
 
 VI. 
 
 "I have seen our glorious banner wave 
 O'er the tents of the enemy vanquished; 
 
 I have drawn a sword for my country brave, 
 And in her cause now perish. 
 
 VII. 
 
 "Leave me to die with the free and brave, 
 On the banks of my noble river. 
 
 Ye can give me naught but a soldier's grave, 
 And a place in your hearts forever." 
 
 THE LAND WE LOVE. 
 
 KEY OF G. 
 
 Ms, ddd, dtl.slf, m--|| 
 
 ||d-dd.r--, td-. 
 s,mmm,mmni,ffff-- 
 rrr, rdr.mmm.m-- 
 d - d d, d --, r -r r, r --, 
 t-tt, tit, d--, || 
 
 Come, cheerful companions, unite in this song, 
 Here's to the land we love.
 
 FOOTPRINTS OF TEXAS HISTORY. 113 
 
 Let mountain and valley the echoes prolong, 
 
 Here's to the land we love. 
 We love all its woodlands and prairies so wide, 
 From northernmost bound'ry to Mexico's tide; 
 Here's to the land, here's to the land, 
 
 Here's to the land we love. 
 
 And here's to the wise and the brave and true,. 
 
 They are the friends we love. 
 Their beautiful lives are for me and for you, 
 
 They are the friends we love. 
 There are Bowie and Crockett and Travis so brave, 
 There's Fannin who died our country to save, 
 They are the friends, they are the friends, 
 
 They are the friends we love. 
 
 My Texas 'tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of Liberty, 
 
 Of thee I sing. 
 Land where my fathers died, 
 Land of the Texan's pride, 
 From all our prairies wide 
 
 Let Freedom ring.
 
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 date stamped below 
 
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 1916