Armed gun rights activists rally at the Alamo

Organizers had also hoped that seeing a large peaceful gathering of armed citizens in the downtown of the country's seventh largest city would be a step toward making people comfortable with the sight. There were people of all ages in the crowd, including young children. Some waved flags that read "Come and Take It," others dressed in period costumes, but most looked like anyone else one might encounter on the street, they just happened to be carrying rifles.

Men strolling through the streets with rifles isn't an image to which Hilary Rand thinks people should have to grow accustomed.

Rand, a regional manager for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, was at a counter-demonstration about a half mile away. Amid hula-hoops and face painting, Rand called the gun rights rally "bullying" and said it may serve opponents' interest as well.

I had to laugh with some nominal Yaqui Indian complaining that it somehow defiled the Alamo that once had been a mission and that Yaquis might be buried there.

The Yaqui Indians in Mexico lived in the northwest, and were a very warrior tribe of Indians. When the Conquistadors arrived, the Yaqui did some calculations, then reached a quick agreement with the Catholic Jesuit Order to all convert to Christianity. Thus they were under the *protection* of the Jesuits, and were never actually conquered by the Spanish.

This entente lasted until the Mexicans drove out the Spanish, and then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqui_people#Yaqui_Wars_and_the_D.C3.ADaz_enslavement

Ultraviolence, enslavement, internal deportation, etc. At one point, under the Yaqui leader Cajemé, they can close to conquering Mexico.

In any event, a lot of Yaqui had to flee to the US, where many still remain. But the idea that Yaqui Indians would be opposed to guns, AT ALL, is just hilarious. In many ways they were a lot like the Apache Indians, except there were a lot more Yaqui than Apache.

Well, your punishment is a “Today in Texas history” lesson!

http://www.tshaonline.org/day-by-day/30637

Oct 22, 1836
On this day in 1836, the ad interim Texas government ended when Sam Houston was inaugurated as President of the Republic of Texas. The Convention of 1836 had declared independence and framed a Texas Constitution, but the advance of the Mexican army made immediate ratification and establishment of constitutional government impossible.

More specifically, the last act of the Convention before it disbanded to flee the advancing Mexican Army had been the selection of an ad interim government on March 16. (The Alamo had fallen on March 6th). This temporary government, without any legislative or judicial departments, fled with the people in the Runaway Scrape, and was located successively at Washington-on-theBrazos, Harrisburg, Galveston Island, Velasco, and Columbia. Santa Anna was defeated on April 21, 1936 at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Thank you for the Tennessee folks who helped us free ourselves from tyranny. :-)

------Santa Anna was defeated on April 21, 1936 at the Battle of San Jacinto.------

Aahmm.......... the 18 minutes in question wherein the valiant Texans charged up the field and drove the army of the distracted Santa Anna into the marsh where it was annihilated actually took place in 1836. We have been told that Texas was saved by a stunningly beautiful Yellow Rose that was in the tent of Santa Anna in the early afternoon of the battle .

Back in '09, We spent a month wandering around Texas. We visited the room on the river bluff in Laredo where one of the Texas Republics was hatched. We of course visited the Alamo site of the gallant stand. We traveled back to the East to Goliad and La Bahia, site of the massacre of Col Fannon and others. We went to Houston where I have several clients and Boarded the battleship Texas and then up to the monument and battlefield of San Jacinto.

I immersed my self in the early history of Texas and am convinced that after the revolution, Texas should be the model for our new government. I made my wife read all of Mitchner's TEXAS that was sort of a guide. We traveled as far west as Alpine/Marfa and Great Bend.

In 2012 we followed the Butterfield Trail, route of the Overland Mail, the first transcontinental mail contract route from Memphis to San Francisco. It was routed through Texas to avoid winter weather in the western mountains. The route is 900 miles long in Texas and pretty much sticks to small towns. The route later became the way west for the Army and a string of forts was built all across the state as people flowed west. Texas celebrates it as the Forts Trail but the locals know it was the Butterfield and celebrate it as well. The Butterfield is under study by the National Park Service as a National Historic Trail and will likely achieve that designation. This trip took us again to El Paso and the Hueco Tanks and of course the Guadalupe Mountains National park.

Lest I be accused of omission, we also pretty much proved beyond doubt that the second best Bar B Que in the world is cooked in Llano Texas at Cooper's. There is almost no equal. It is bettered only by that produced nearby at The Ridges Bar B Que that just happens to be on the National Historic Trail followed by the Overmountain Men of East Tennessee as they journeyed to fight the Battle of King's Mountain, the turning point in the Revolution.

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