Excerpt from Romance and Tragedy of Texas History, Vol. 1: Being a Record of Many Thrilling Events in Texas History Under Spanish, Mexican and Anglo-Saxon RuleTh1s record of the Romance and Tragedy of Texas History is presented with the view of interesting and instructing the reader. Many of the facts presented are unknown to the general public, but they possess historic interest of unusual value.This volume does not purport to contain every incident of Texas history around which cluster Romance and Tragedy. It does, however, give many of the major events of Texas history which are conspicuous for romantic and tragic interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.