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Texas joined the Union as the 28th state, after its war of independence against Mexico and 10 years as a Lone Star republic, on this day in history, Dec. 29, 1845.
The vast state, larger in area than the nation of France, joined the union but never lost its sense of independence.
“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America,” famed author John Steinbeck wrote in his 1962 travelogue, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America.”
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“Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
Everything is bigger in Texas — including the drama surrounding its road to statehood.
Engraving of the siege of the Alamo, the first thirteen days of the Battle of the Alamo, from the book ‘Brief history of Texas from its earliest settlement to which is appended the constitution of the state’ by De Witt Clinton Baker, 1873. Courtesy Internet Archive.
(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
James Bowie, Davy Crockett and about 200 other heroes were killed at the siege of The Alamo during the Texas Revolution (1935-36), a massacre which turned into a resolute rallying cry — “Remember the Alamo!” — of Texas tenacity.
The Lone Star State won its independence from Mexico during the war.
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Revolutionary leaders, mostly colonists from the U.S., including President of Texas Sam Houston, immediately made overtures of statehood to American leadership in Washington D.C.
“Texas sought annexation by the United States, but both Mexico and antislavery forces in the United States opposed its admission into the Union,” writes…
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