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This Week in Texas History
November 8, 2023
As the Texas Ranger lieutenant prepared to fight 150 or more Indians with only 18 men on Nov. 10, 1837, he must have questioned the wisdom of his reckless decision to part company with his captain, William Mosby Eastland. Born in Kentucky and raised in Tennessee, Eastland was 28 in 1834, when he mov...