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Official account of the @TXGLO Save Texas History program, highlighting the conservation of historic documents and promoting the study of Texas history.

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Learn more about Isaac Watts Burton and the Texas "Horse Marines" here:
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Major Isaac Burton and thirty mounted “Horse Marines” successfully deceived and commandeered a Mexican ship near Copano Bay, this week in Texas history.

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Burton and his men used their newly acquired schooner, "Watchman," to capture two more Mexican vessels and bring the claimed ships to Galveston.

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His 1867 "Traveller’s Map of the State of Texas" is the most accurate map of the state at the time, helping future immigrants understand the vast layout of their new home.

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GLO draftsman Charles W. Pressler created the map below to provide important cartographic information for new arrivals to Texas during the Reconstruction era. #MapMonday

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The GLO's limited edition "I Saved Texas History" t-shirts are available now!

Anyone who donates $30 or more to our Save Texas History Program will receive this year's exclusive t-shirt celebrating Texas’s rich heritage.

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Led by Roosevelt and commanded by Col. Leonard Wood, the regiment prepared to travel from San Antonio to Tampa, Florida, to join U.S. troops in an invasion of Cuba.

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On May 30, 1898, Theodore Roosevelt’s First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, infamously known as the “Rough Riders,” was ordered to take part in the Spanish-American War.

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The Don King Family Surveying Collection consists of a unique assortment of precisely crafted tools that played a major role in our state’s cartographic history, helping to establish Texas’ land system.

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The GLO Archives recently unveiled a new exhibit that features antique surveying instruments used by surveyors from 1850 to the early 1940s. #SaveTexasHistory

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The palace hosted a dance with thousands in attendance just one year after construction, which ended tragically after a lit cigarette ignited a fire that burned down the entire building.

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In 1889, the massive Texas Spring Palace in Fort Worth was meant to rival the new State Fair in Dallas—until it went up in flames.

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Created by the Texas Highway Department, this tourist map features all the U.S. and state highways in Texas (at that time), major population centers, and several state landmarks.

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The "Official Map of the Highway System in Texas" was issued in 1936 and represents the incredible growth of public road construction in the early 1900s.

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The LBJ Library currently houses a massive collection of over 45 million documents, as well as thousands of hours of recorded audio and videotapes that spansJohnson’s life and career.

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On May 22, 1971, the historic Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, our nation’s fifth presidential library, was dedicated on the University of Texas at Austin’s campus.

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Burton’s unusual tactics earned his group the nickname “Horse Marines,” and the GLO Archives holds records of their military service.

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Following the Battle of San Jacinto, Major Isaac Watts Burton led a small group of cavalrymen in successfully capturing three Mexican Navy ships on the Texas coast. #SaveTexasHistory

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Stance and his men fought against a band of Apaches and saved a kidnapped farmboy without losing a single soldier, this week in Texas history.

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Sgt. Emanuel Stance became the first Buffalo Soldier to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after heroically leading a rescue mission near Fort McKavett.