Big Wonderful Thing Quotes

“Austin confided as much in his private correspondence. “Strangers to each other,” he wrote, “to me, and to the laws and languages of the country, they come here with all the ideas of americans and expect to see and understand the laws they are governed by, and many very many of them have all the licentiousness and wild turbulence of frontiersmen.”
― Stephen Harrigan, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas

“They also, in the worried opinion of one Mexican official, “go about with their constitution in their pocket,” never quite accepting that they had become foreign citizens in a foreign land.”
― Stephen Harrigan, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas