Ep. 66: The Tories of the Texas Revolution
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The account of the Texas revolution makes for glorious telling, retelling and reading. It seemed that every man, woman and child in early Texas just couldn’t wait to rebel against the tyrannical Mexican government and win another glorious war for independence. Didn’t they? Well, not exactly. Just like the 13 American colonies, Texas had its tories too. Learn more about “differences of opinion” in revolutionary Texas in the latest episode of Wise About Texas
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host Ken Wise. I want to thank you for tuning in today for little Texas History. |
| 0:16.0 | You are listening to what I can now fairly call the award winning Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | We just got presented an award recently from the Texas chapter |
| 0:26.8 | of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the Texas State Convention. For my efforts to preserve and promote history, I'm so grateful to the |
| 0:35.8 | daughters of the American Revolution for that award. That's a wonderful group who's done |
| 0:40.2 | countless things for this country in their 125 year plus history and it is an honor to be associated with them and certainly an honor to receive their award. |
| 0:51.5 | We're not doing it for the awards but we are doing it for the commitment to preserving and promoting history that I know that I share with the daughters. |
| 1:00.0 | So thank you very much Texas D-A-R for that wonderful honor. Things have been busy around |
| 1:06.2 | wise about Texas World Headquarters as they always are. I was invited to an actual |
| 1:11.7 | Hollywood movie premiere that occurred during the |
| 1:14.1 | South by Southwest Festival in Austin. It's a movie that's in theaters now. This |
| 1:20.6 | episode is being released in March 2019. It's coming to Netflix. It's called The Highway Men. |
| 1:26.0 | And there's going to be more to come on that. In the very near future, we're going to talk about Bonnie and Clyde. |
| 1:32.0 | The Highway Men focuses on the former |
| 1:36.0 | Texas Rangers who caught Bonnie and Clyde, specifically Frank Hamer and Manny Gault. |
| 1:41.7 | It's wonderfully well done and look for that coming soon. |
| 1:47.0 | This episode as I mentioned is being released in March 2019 right in the middle of the High Holy Days of Texas History. |
| 1:56.5 | So today, we're going to talk about the Texas Revolution. |
| 2:00.8 | When you read about the goings on in Texas from the early 1830s up to the first shots in 1835, |
| 2:08.0 | it seems that everyone just could not wait to go to war with Mexico. |
| 2:12.0 | After all, Mexico had put Stephen F. Austin in prison. |
| 2:15.0 | They tried to tax the citizens into poverty. |
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