A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . Bigelow, one of the councilmen, at this time estab- First Texaslished a printing-office and newspaper of which he was editor,— newspaperthe first in Texas. Trading-posts were established on theTrinity and the Brazos, and a fort was built near old Washingtonon the Brazos. Long then sought the aid of Lafitte, and forthat purpose visited Galveston. He met with no success there,and, returning, found his newly established posts threatened bya royalist force from Mexico, under Colonel Perez. The trading-post and fort on the Brazos w
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . Bigelow, one of the councilmen, at this time estab- First Texaslished a printing-office and newspaper of which he was editor,— newspaperthe first in Texas. Trading-posts were established on theTrinity and the Brazos, and a fort was built near old Washingtonon the Brazos. Long then sought the aid of Lafitte, and forthat purpose visited Galveston. He met with no success there,and, returning, found his newly established posts threatened bya royalist force from Mexico, under Colonel Perez. The trading-post and fort on the Brazos were captured, and the Spaniardsadvanced to the Trinity, where they drove out the settlers. Al)attle occurred near the Cushatta village, in which the republi-cans were defeated, and they fled to Bolivar Point, where they Boiivar Poimwere joined by General Long, and a fort was built, aided byColonel Trespalacios, a Spanish patriot. In the meanwhile, Lafitte had been appointed republican t 10 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period 1. Spanish Domination I52cS TOI 82 I. Mks. Jank Long governor of Galveston by tliat party in Mexico, but his pirat-ical depredations continuing, the United States compelled himto break up his establishment at Galveston and leave the Texascoast, which he did early in 1821. Cxcneral Long went to Gal-veston a few days before Lafitte left, whence, in a short time, hemarchetl on La Bahia and captured it, but he and his men weretaken prisoners and sent to Mexico, where he wasassassinated in 1822, while on parole in the heroic wife waited his return at Bolivar Point,enduring the lonely grief and despair, often threat-ened by the fierce and brutal Karankawas, andsubjected to every privation and exposure. Aftermany months the news of her husbands deathcame, and she returned to her friends in the UnitedStates, not, however, to abandon the attempt todiscover and punish his murderers, which she prose-cuted for many years. The second hostile attempt to set
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