Mother Colony House

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“An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
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““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
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