I’ll go out on a limb here and say that Edwin Moore is the single greatest hero in all of Texas history. His competence, daring, and integrity place him far above all other candidates to the title. Not to mention his success against overwhelming odds. And yet, despite being a name on the required Texas…
Month: June 2019
A polite reply to Santa Anna
President David G. Burnet does not, I think, get the respect he deserves. He’s usually not even listed as Texas’ first President, just because he was appointed by the Legislature soon after declaring independence. He went ahead and called for elections in the Summer of 1836, as soon as he deemed the situation to be…
A Polite Letter from Santa Anna
I am incredibly blessed to have become a historian in the 21st Century – modern technology has made our ability to discover new information considerably easier. Whereas earlier historians would have to travel to widely dispersed libraries and pour through physical card catalogs (have any teenagers ever even seen one?), our modern computerized access to…