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Lamar's Efforts to Protect the Frontier

thinking behind the law was not bad, but the scheme of a system of permanent forts was too grandiose for a weak, frontier republic on the verge of bankruptcy, and the financial picture was to grow worse rather than better.









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AFTER SAN JACINTO: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841
Joseph Milton Nance, 1963