TEXAS 1840 - Origin and Current State of the New, Independent State of Texas: A Contribution to the History / Statistics and Geography of this Century Collected in the Country Itself

G A Scherpf, Stephen A Engelking

Anyone who is as fascinated about the era surrounding the establishment of the Republic of Texas as I am, will understand my excitement on discovering this book in German written in 1840.G.A. Scherpf was a German who had been living for some time in New York and decided to undertake an expedition to see with his own eyes which of the conflicting reports about Texas were true.He became so enamored …