This Week in Texas History
by BARTEE HAILE
Edmund J. Davis and six other Radical Republicans began writing in strict secrecy the constitution for the “State of West Texas” on Dec. 16, 1868, but the overconfident Coyotes were getting ahead of themselves.
The second round of the Republican controlled constitutional convention had been gaveled to order eight days earlier in Austin. Although the official task of the rowdy assembly was to rewrite the Lone Star charter, at the top of the agenda was a Radical proposal to carve up Texas like a Christmas turkey.
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