The Texian Loan rare-original-maps-and-documents all signers of the Texas

all signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence

and a fully electric transportation system was in action with twenty cars running on fifteen miles of track

and the opportunity to escape their nearly feudal life under the local noblemen

By the 1950s the streetcars were merely part of the city’s rich history

The original Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway company lasted a short time (just a little over ten years) and was purchased in 1937 by the Atchison

The Texian Loan rare-original-maps-and-documents all signers of the TexasThe Famed TEXIAN LOAN Even before Texas Independence was declared on March 2nd, 1836, Texans were busy raising much needed capital. Stephen F. Austin, famed for his unfailing efforts to bring Americans and Europeans to settle in Texas, was commissioned along with William Wharton and Branch Archer. The three traveled east to New Orleans and thence up the Mississippi & Ohio Rivers and eventually to Washington, making impassioned speeches along the way