What kind of people were the early Texan settlers?
After the Civil War, Texas went through a period of rapid change. Its population virtually tripled, and consisted of a mix of Native Americans, Tejanos (whose Spanish and Mexican ancestors had settled the territory), new Anglo-settlers from the East, Britain and Ireland and newly-freed African Americans. Despite these different cultures, what most of the early Texan settlers had in common was an entrepreneurial streak, a sense of adventure and the physical and mental agility to survive in the vast wilderness of the Texas range.
