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RANGERS AND SOVEREIGNTY.
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a headright, giving to the head of a family a certain
amount of land, as a recognition of their services in
fighting for it. In 1874, the land on the Texas frontier
covered about the same area, that well-settled portion
of the State covered, if not more, including the Panhandle
strip, and from San Antonio to the Rio Grande,
and up and down that river, for nearly a thousald
miles. That frontier territory has proven that it was
worth s much to Texas as her cotton farms.. It has
stocked nearly every state, west of the Mississippi
River to California, with cattle. It built Texas a
capitol building that cost six million dollars. It subsidized
the M. K.
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Roberts, Dan W. Rangers and sovereignty, book, 1914; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5833/m1/160/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.