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BOOK II Home--builders and a Fort on the Prairies GENERAL TARRANT and the minutemen's fight at Village Creek in 1841; Houston's plighted word at Bird's Fort in 1843; Rangers', surveyors ', and trappers' intrepid advances into the wilderness of the Trinity ; the Congress of the Republic with its legal arm; and the annexation of Texas by the United States in December, 1845-all had gone before, opening the way for families in covered wagons to roll into the prairie country in the last half of the eighteen-forties. Then the fmal event opening the upper Trinity to settlement came after the Mexican War. The United States, fulfilling its treaty obligation to prevent Indian incursions into the Republic of Mexico, prepared to erect a chain of outposts, which led to the establishment of the fort at the forks of the Trinity on June 6, 1849. And home-builders came to settle under the protective arm of the military post. ...

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