Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart
Unfortunately, they have both left their mark on us.
...and don't forget Bob Wills, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly...
I think this was written by Bum Phillips. He has written a couple of essays about Texas and this sounds a lot like one of his.
But gave us Janis Joplin.
You are obviously in the wrong part of CA if you miss 100+ degree days. Get away from those wimps in SF and come toward the Sierras, Northern CA is the only place to live in CA.
WRONG on two counts!!! First, it's "Anna". Second, Houston didn't capture Santa Anna. Mr. M's great-great grandfather, Sion Record Bostick along with his cousin Joel Robinson and another scout captured Santa Anna and brought him to Houston. Houston let the weasel live and sent him back to Mexico. The famous painting that hangs in the capital and is featured in all Texas history books of Houston wounded under the tree with the Texan army shows Sion and Joel. The problem however, is the artist painted Sion as he was when the artist visited with him - as an old man with a white beard, rather than a boy of 16. Sion is the old white bearded man wearing a black hat standing on the top back row on the mid-left. A more age appropriate Joel is wearing a white shirt with a red scarf (IIRC) and is centered in the portrait. This excerpt of Sion's recollections of the capture of Santa Anna after the Battle of San Jacinto is from the Texas Handbook Online. I have the more colorful story but the language of what he really wanted to do to the prisoner wouldn't have been proper for Handbook. Actually, Santa Anna gave Joel the Masonic handshake which saved his skin or his death would have been a mystery to this day. The Masonic brotherhood played a huge part in Texas history. Susannah Dickinson survived the Alamo because her husband wrapped their baby in his Masonic apron and later Houston let Santa Anna live because they both were Masons.
"Capt. Moseley Baker told me on the morning of the 22nd to scout around on the prairie and see if I could find any escaping Mexicans. I went and fell in with two other scouts, one of whom was named Joel Robinson, and the other Henry Sylvester. We had horses that we had captured from the Mexicans. When we were about eight miles from the battle field, about one o'clock, we saw the head and shoulders of a man above the tall sedge grass, walking through the prairie. As soon as we saw him we started towards him in a gallop. When he discovered us, he squatted in the grass; but we soon came to the place. As we rode up we aimed our guns at him and told him to surrender. He held up his hands, and spoke in Spanish, but I could not understand him. He was dressed like a common soldier with dingy looking white uniform. Under the uniform he had on a fine shirt. As we went back to camp the prisoner rode behind Robinson a while and then rode behind Sylvester. I was the youngest and smallest of the party, and I would not agree to let him ride behind me. I wanted to shoot him. We did not know who he was. He was tolerably dark skinned, weighed about one hundred and forty-five pounds, and wore side whiskers. When we got to camp, the Mexican soldiers, then prisoners, saluted him and said, “el presidente.” We knew then that we had made a big haul. All three of us who had captured him were angry at ourselves for not killing him out on the prairie, to be consumed by the wolves and buzzards. We took him to General Houston, who was wounded and lying under a big oak tree."
I forgot to mention I live a couple miles from Southfork.
And Jimmy Johnson
Flat, hot, humid, no interesting cities except the capital, which is ruled by Communists, great Mexican food everywhere (why go to Mexico?), watery beer brewed in San Antonio, a great place, fer shore!
I'm in Wylie. You?
Yum! Fried armadillo - fresh caught of course. And fried rattlesnake... ok, I let someone else catch the snakes.
The world saw the strong moral character of Texans in our response to Katrina, by opening our hearts and homes to our neighbors in need...
The spirit of America is alive and well in TEXAS!
1. Texas: Productive industrious state run by Republicans
Louisiana: Government dependent welfare state run by Democrats
2. Texas: Residents take responsibility to protect and evacuate themselves
Louisiana: Residents wait for government to protect and evacuate them
Number 6 is good:
6. Texas: Local police watch for looting
Louisiana: Local police participate in looting
Not from Texas myself, but appreciate the Texan can-do spirit.
What's Juneteenth?
It is interesting that while most of we Texans are polite and cordial whenever meeting folks from elsewhere, often these same folks will go out of their way to make a pointed attack against us. A little trick I have used is to comeback with comments such as; "have you ever heard a song about Rhode Island"?. "Can you name one epic novel written about New Jersey"? Can you name a state that has had probably a dozen movies made about the same event (Alamo) and continues to sell well each time"?
By pointing out That Texas is a unique place with it's own unique history that no other state can compare with usually sends these inferior specimens away in a pissy mood.
One little correction, though--the Texas anthem is not the Eyes of Texas. That is the University of Texas fight song. The Texas anthem is Texas, Our Texas. We used to sing it every morning at flag service held out by the school flagpoles. We did the pledge of allegiance to the USA, the Texas pledge, and sang the Texas anthem. (I don't remember in what order--LOL).
Also, as a school girl growing up in Texas, we studied Texas History from the 1st grade through the 7th grade. In the 8th grade, we were introduced to American History--I kid you not. I love Texas history--both the real stuff, and the folklore.
I have lived around the country and enjoyed most places where I have lived, but Texas is where I want to be. Texas is my home, I'm happy to be here now, and Texas is where I'll die.
Never mind. :)
"Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
"From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond."
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