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Title: Combats and conquests of immortal heroes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barnes, Charles Merritt
Subjects: San Antonio (Tex.) -- History Texas -- History
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Guessaz & Ferlet company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mimeograph or the multigraph and had it notbeen, neither of these would have been issued to or been per-mitted the use of by prisoners. The first issue was datedApril 1, 1842. It ran through but five issues, the last beingdated on the anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto, April 21. Another patriotic publication was that originated byGail Borden, Thomas H. Borden and Julius Baker at Coloradoin 1836 shortly before the San Jacinto battle. Santa Anassoldiers captured the printers and imprisoned them, threwtheir type and printing press into the river and chased theeditors, who had a narrow escape, with a few copies of the issuejust printed. The ;)ress was afterward fished from the bottomof the stream and used in Houston to print the Houston Tele-graph of which J. H. Crugar was business manager and Dr.Moore, editor. The original name given it by the Bordensand Baker was the Telegraph and Texas Register and the presswas a Hoe, (Smith medium.) 172 Combats axd Conquests of Laimortal Heroes
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Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes 173 The first printing press brought to Texas was that carriedto Galveston in 1816 long before the founding of the RepubHc,Samuel Bangs using it for printing the records of an ill-starredexpedition, but the name of the publication, if it had one, hasbeen lost in oblivion. The first regular newspaper publication established inTexas was founded by Horatio N. Bigelow at Nacogdochesin 1828, the place where they have permitted the destructionof the historic old fort and ever since regretted its dem-olition. Soon after the fort was destroyed the historic oldLiberty Tree there was blown down by a hurricane andnow the Nacogdoches people are without any historic relics.They did not preserve Bigelows historic press. He calledhis paper by a name that has even been forgotten. Butthe following year at San Felipe de Austin, 1829, GodwinCotten instituted the Cotton Plant, while in 1834 D. W. Anthonyestablished at Brazoria the Constitutional Advocate andAdvert

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