. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... s of the State. Theordinance of secession was adopted in February, 1861. Gen. Houston, who had op-posed all attempts at secession, refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy,and was deprived of his office. On Oct. 8,1862, the Federals occupied Galveston, but 1,1863, the city was retaken by the Confederates. The military operations withintho State were unimportant, although Western Texas was occupied by the Union armyin November, 1863, and the last battle of the war was fought near the Rio Grande, onTesan
. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... s of the State. Theordinance of secession was adopted in February, 1861. Gen. Houston, who had op-posed all attempts at secession, refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy,and was deprived of his office. On Oct. 8,1862, the Federals occupied Galveston, but 1,1863, the city was retaken by the Confederates. The military operations withintho State were unimportant, although Western Texas was occupied by the Union armyin November, 1863, and the last battle of the war was fought near the Rio Grande, onTesan soil, on May 13,1865. The process of reconstruction was extended over severilyeais, and it was not until April 16, 1870, that the government was finally turned overto the civil authorities. A new constitution was adopted in 1875, and is now in —Cew^^ns, of 1880: Males, 837,840; Females, 753,909; Native,1,477,133; Foreiijn, 114,616; White, 1,197,237; Colored, 394,512, including 136 Chi-nese and 992 Indians and Ilalf-breeds. 89 M^F OF c TEX f INDIAN TERRITORY. Topogvnpliy>—The Indian Territory has an extreme length east and west of470 miles, and south of latitude 36^ 30 about 310 miles; extreme breadth, 210 miles;area, 64,690 square miles, or 41,301,600 acres. A strip of land between the 100th and103d meridians, about thirty-five miles in width, was ceded to the United States byTexas, and is regarded as a portion of the Territory, although not properly belongingto it. It consists of a vast plain with a gradual slope towards the east, and the onlyconsiderable elevations are the Wichita mountains in the southwest, and some spurs ofthe Ozark and Wasliita ranges in the east. The river valleys of the east are borderedby abrupt bluffs separating them from the rolling prairies of the uplands. Exceptin the west, which is an arid plain, rivers are plentiful. The Arkansas enters the Ter-ritory from the north, intersects it in a southeasterly direction, and pas
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