ABSTRACT
When John Howard died, ‘Texas’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans, American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of, or wandered away from, the established ‘colonies’ to the north and east. In historically accurate terms these settled states had ceased to be colonies fourteen years before Howard’s death, but that probably did not much matter south and west of the Red River which forms the north-east boundary of what was then known as Tejas, or Tehas.
