Preservation: Indians on the Internet

  A Scrap of History An 1836 order to print the Texas Declaration of Independence and circulate it throughout Texas and the rest of the U.S. has been recently discovered in the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. Houston author James P. Bevill found the five-by-eight-inch scrap of paper. He says the note reveals investors in New Orleans had demanded Texas pass the declaration before they would provide money to carry out the war with Mexico. Publishing and distributing the declara