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By Jack Jackson

How can the lifetime of one really unknown guy switch our knowing of Texas heritage and the yankee West? Peter Ellis Bean, a pretty minor yet interesting personality, casts unforeseen mild on conflicts, well-known characters, and occasions from the time of Mexican rule over the years of the Republic.

Bean’s position in Mexico’s revolution opposed to Spain and his carrier as an agent of the Mexican govt, in particular as Indian agent in japanese Texas, offer an strangely brilliant photograph of Mexican Texas, in addition to new information regarding the Indians in his zone. extra explosively, Jackson’s examine on Bean’s profession as Indian agent casts doubt at the conventional characterization of Sam Houston as a chum to the Texas Indians. Bean’s occupation exhibits Houston as a rival for the loyalty of the Indians in the course of Texas’ uprising opposed to Mexico, a rival who made fake grants for army and political gain.

After Texas independence, Bean bought sizeable lands in Texas, at one aspect conserving greater than 100,000 acres. a very good citizen and a great businessman, concerned with genuine property, sawmills, salt works, agriculture, and inventory elevating, he used to be additionally a bigamist.

Meticulously researched, dramatically written, and embodying a special realizing of Mexican Texas, Jack Jackson’s chronicle of Peter Ellis Bean not just rescues him from relative obscurity but additionally corrects key points of the historical past during which he was once concerned and brings to existence an period extra frequently consigned to myth.

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But the struggle had ended in success, and now the losers were the winners in a new constitutional republic. Their meetings with Bean must have been joyous ones, old memories pouring forth in buckets. 13 As Bean did not make his appearance in the Mexican capital until October 1825, he probably traveled down the coast of Tamaulipas from San Carlos and visited his wife, Magdalena Falfán de los Godos, near Jalapa. They had not seen each other since Bean’s dash to escape Royalist troops a decade earlier, when she remained behind.

This came on September 16, 1810, known as the famous grito de Dolores. As the revolution progressed, prisons were cleared of men willing to fight for the Royalist cause. Bean declared his willingness, and the governor released him when the castle’s commandant argued that Bean’s record of “venturesome” and bold escape attempts would make him a good soldier. So Bean’s irons were taken off and he was given a uniform, a gun, and a sword. ” He was soon talking to other soldiers about what the revolution meant for them and how they ought to join it.

Rather than face arrest, militia captain Dill fled to Louisiana. 46 Such was the chaotic state of affairs at Nacogdoches when Bean departed for Mexico. They would get worse when Haden Edwards was named empresario of the region in April 1825 and arrived later in the year to begin placing eight hundred “Catholic” families from the United States in possession of lands held by the old settlers—some for generations, but under dubious or lost titles from Spain. Ten Years a Prisoner [31] 03-A3409 6/2/05 7:30 AM Page 32 Chapter 3 Back to Mexico n Mexico, meanwhile, events had been transpiring that would ease Bean’s goal of securing favor for his past services to the nation.

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