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. Public opinion in Texas was divided. Editorials in the United States began advocating complete independence for Texas. After several men staged a minor revolt against customs duties in Anahuac in June local leaders began calling for a public meeting to determine whether a majority of settlers favored independence a return to federalism or the status quo Although some leaders worried that Mexican officials would see this type of gathering as a step towards revolution by the end of August most communities had agreed to send delegates to the Consultation scheduled for October 15! The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad --the "Katy"--was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north, In 1983 the Wells Fargo Bank Plaza was completed which became the second-tallest building in Houston and in Texas and the 11th-tallest in the country it was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates and supposedly resembles an abstracted dollar sign in plan From street level the building is 71 stories tall or 972 ft (296 m) tall it also extends four more stories below street level. 1960 1,243,158 54.1% Two kinds of people travel around these plains with the cows; one is called Querechos and the others Teyas; they are very well built and painted and are enemies of each other They have no other settlement or location than comes from traveling around with the cows They kill all of these they wish and tan the hides with which they clothe themselves and make their tents and they eat the flesh sometimes even raw and they also even drink the blood when thirsty the tents they make are like field tents and they set them up over some poles they have made for this purpose which come together and are tied at the top and when they go from one place to another they carry them on some dogs they have of which they have many and they load them with the tents and poles and other things for the country is so level as I said that they can make use of these because they carry the poles dragging along on the ground the sun is what they worship most, Many immigrants openly flouted Mexican law especially the prohibition against slavery Combined with United States' attempts to purchase Texas Mexican authorities decided in 1830 to prohibit continued immigration from the United States. New laws also called for the enforcement of customs duties angering both native Mexican citizens (Tejanos) and recent immigrants, Economy Although the missionaries had been unable to convert the Hasinai tribe of East Texas they did become friendly with the natives the Hasinai were bitter enemies of the Lipan Apache who transferred their enmity to Spain and began raiding San Antonio and other Spanish areas a temporary peace was finally negotiated with the Apache in 1749 and at the request of the Indians a mission was established along the San Saba River northwest of San Antonio the Apaches shunned the mission but the fact that Spaniards now appeared to be friends of the Apache angered the Apache enemies primarily the Comanche Tonkawa and Hasinai tribes who promptly destroyed the mission.

Baytown Airport in unincorporated east Harris County north of Baytown, This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Representatives Name Party First Elected Area(s) of Harris County Represented, District 2 Dan Crenshaw Republican 2018 Atascosita Huffman Humble Kingwood Spring. When Mexican authorities received word of Santa Anna's defeat at San Jacinto flags across the country were lowered to half staff and draped in mourning. Denouncing any agreements signed by Santa Anna a prisoner of war the Mexican authorities refused to recognize the Republic of Texas. Filisola was derided for leading the retreat and quickly replaced by Urrea Within months Urrea gathered 6,000 troops in Matamoros poised to reconquer Texas However the renewed Mexican invasion of Texas never materialized as Urrea's army was redirected to address continued federalist rebellions in other state regions in Mexico, 3.4 Deep East Texas 10 Infrastructure Legacy (17) 63 Globe Life Park in Arlington home of the Texas Rangers! . The Astrodome was conceived by Hofheinz as early as 1952 when he and his daughter Dede were rained out once too often at Buffalo Stadium home of Houston's minor league baseball team the Houston Buffs Hofheinz abandoned his interest in the world's first air-conditioned shopping mall the Galleria and set his sights on bringing major league baseball to Houston, The successive expeditions and experience of the Portuguese pilots led to a rapid evolution of Portuguese nautical science, Native Americans in East Texas began to settle in villages shortly after 500 BC farming and building the first burial mounds They were influenced by the Mississippian culture which had major sites throughout the Mississippi basin in the Trans-Pecos area populations were influenced by Mogollon culture. 2 1900s Tourist attractions in the Houston area include Space Center Houston and the original La Casida and Ninfa's Previous attractions included tours of the Houston Astrodome and Gilley's the Houston Bay Area and Galveston also have many other tourist attractions including a Schlitterbahn Water Park Kemah Boardwalk Moody Gardens beaches fishing pleasure boats and many local seafood restaurants the Houston Museum District Houston Theater District in Downtown and the Galleria are also heavily visited tourist attractions.[citation needed], Culture Scoreboard Texas racial breakdown of population, 4.3 Encroachment (25.6) 85.2 (29.6) 91.2 131 Alma Allen Democratic 2004 far Southwest Houston and far South Side.