"Texas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dover, which is near Fort Donelson, he found alive with troops; regiments were arriving from Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee. General Pillow was there in command. He was once an officer in the army of the United States and fought in Mexico. General Floyd was there with a brigade of Virginians. He was Secretary of War ...
— Winning His Way • Charles Carleton Coffin
... and Gedeon started a double | |steal. It looked as if Gedeon would be a sure out at| |second, but he got back to first safely. Pipp ended | |the fun by fanning. | | | |In the sixth Baker singled to left, and Gedeon | |placed a Texas leaguer back of first, which none of | |the Senator fielders reached. Baker was late in | |starting for second, and Jamieson made a bad throw | |to catch him, so both runners advanced a cushion. | |Mullen, ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... very much interested in your paper. I am going to save up my money to take it. I am nine years old. I have a pony named Coby. I enjoy him very much. He is a Texas pony. I live in Richmond, Kentucky, where the grass ...
— Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... liberty secured the great State of California, and in 1860 the State of Kansas. These States insure the possession of the whole Pacific coast, the entire mineral wealth of the mountains, the Indian Territory, and the vast spaces of Northwestern Texas to freedom, and open Mexico to Northern occupation. In the East, freedom had already secured the best harbors for commerce; in the Northwest, the granary of the world; the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Lake Superior, and the navigation of thousands of miles upon the great inland ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... stern task, the throwing off of the yoke of Spain and the establishing of native administrations. The flower of the earth, the vast and rich tropics and sub-tropics of North and South America, from California, Texas, and the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, Central America, down through the great Andes of Peru and Chile to Cape Horn, was in the hands of Spain, and it slipped from the grasp of ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
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