Texas thus became its own independent country with its own president, congress ... The documents stayed, but the capital would temporarily move from Austin to ...

By 1836 the Texas Revolution was over and the ... felt would be a prime location that intersected the roads to San ... According to local folklore, Stephen F. Austin, the "father of Texas" for whom the new capital ... This land became the central campus of the University of Texas at ...

Before Texas integrated itself in to the union, and relinquished its domain over the chunks of Oklahoma Kansas Wyoming Colorado and about half of New ...