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Don Martin De Leon was the only Tejano empresario to settle a colony in Texas, in the days before statehood. Other empresarios were Anglos who had been drawn to Texas by the lure of land. This book is the fourth title in "The Stars of Texas" series, aimed at fourth graders studying for the Texas history section of the TAKS test.

State House Press is launching a new series of Texas biographies aimed at students in the fourth grade. The series focuses on important, but perhaps lesser known, Texans and their contributions to Texas history. The first two books in the series look at Henrietta King, matriarch of the King Ranch family, and Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas. They are among the personalities whose names appear on study guides for the...

Miriam Ferguson was a quiet, private person who preferred to stay home in her big house in Temple, Texas, and take care of her husband, raise her two daughters, and tend to her flower garden. But in 1923 she was elected governor of Texas, the first women governor elected in the United States.