Excerpt from Texas as It Is: Or, the Emigrants' Guide, the Result of Travel, Inquiry and Observation Settlement, Independence, Annexation, Population, Boundaries, go. The incidents which resulted, in making the State of Texas a part of the Federal Union, are not so old as to be forgotten by men of mature years, they were sufficiently exciting at the time of their occurence; but the rush of startling events which have intervened, have so crowded them out, that the active business men 03 the present day think not of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.