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by Cyndy Cox
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Texas was admitted as the Union on December 29, 1845. It is called "The Lone Star State."
History
"The
first European emigrants to Texas were led hither by Robert
Cavalier, the Sieur de la Salle, who landed on the west side, and
near the entrance, of Matagorda bay, on the 18th of February,
1685.
"... it was reserved to La Salle to discover its
mouth, which he did on the 7th day of April, 1682, and, on the
9th, celebrated the discovery with great ceremony, taking
possession, in the name of Louis XIV., by proclamation and proces
verbal, of all the territory watered by the Mississippi from its
mouth to its source, and by the streams flowing into it on both
sides.
"The report of this splendid discovery, which was
made known in Europe, by La Salle and his followers, on their
return to France, created great excitement, not only at court, but
among the learned."
Source: History of Texas from Its
First Settlement in 1685 to Its... by Henderson K. Yoakum
