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The Proto-Indians lived at the Gault site
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Coastal Americans Indians make knives and scrapers from stone
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American Indians that lived near Galveston Bay begin making pottery
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps the Texas coast
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Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado crosses the Texas Panhandle
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A Spanish treasure fleet shipwrecks off of present-day Padre Island
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Spaniard Hernan Gallegos writes about the lives of the Jumano Indians in Texas
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Juan de Onate crosses the Texas Panhandle on his way to Quivira
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Spaniards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses
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A group of colonists led by French explorer ReneRobert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle lands in Matagorda Bay in Texas
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the Spanish build a mission named San Francisco de los Tejas
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Martin de Alarcon establishes the San Antonio de Valero mission
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Settlers from the Canary Islands arrive in San Antonio
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Rancher Tomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo
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the Marques de Rubi expedition begins
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Antonio Gil Ybardo founds the town of Nacogodoches in East Texas
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Spanish priest Juan Agustin Morfi, author of the History of Texas, 1673-1779, dies
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Philip Nolan, a U.S. citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas
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U.S. citizen James Long and a small force invade Texas, only to be defeated by Spanish forces
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Mexico, which includes Texas, wins its independence from spain
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The Spanish government grants Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas
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Settler Jared Grose plants a cotton crop, possibly the first in Stephen F. Austin's colony
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about 3,000 Anglo settlers live in Texas without the permission of the Mexican government
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Empresario Martin de Leon settles families on the lower Guadalupe river
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Mexican officials adopt the Constitution of 1824. Coahhuila and Texas are merged to form one state
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An American Indian attack on the Green DeWitt colony forces settlers to flee Gonzales
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Stephen F. Austin receives a contract to settle an additional 100 families in Texas
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Tomas J. Pilgrim organizes a Sunday school and a private boys' school in San Felipe
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The Texas Gazette newspaper begins publication in Austin's colony
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Mary Austin Holly's letters, describing life in early Texas, are published
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Texas farmers export some 7,00 bales of cotton, worth about $315,000, to New Orleans
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Texas settlers hold about 3,500 land grants
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An estimated 1,000 U.S. immigrants enter Texas each month
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Texas settlers attack Mexican soldiers at Gonzales, forcing them to leave
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Texas troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capurting the city
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The Siege of the Alamo begins
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The Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted
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Texans win the Battle of San Jacinto, ending the Texas Revolution
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Sam Houston becomes the first popularity elected president of the Republic of Texas
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The first official Texas flag is adopted by the Texas Congress
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The Texas government begins work in Houston, the new Capital
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The U.S. Congress authorizes a diplomat to go to Texas
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Velasco citizens hold a horse race on the coast near the town
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William H. Wharton is elected to the Texas Senate
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Texans elect Mirabeau B. president
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Texas passes a homestead law, protecting setters' homes from being seized to pay debts
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France becomes the first European nation to recognize Texas as an independent country
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Repeated attacks and discrimination force more than 100 Tejano families to flee Nacogdoches
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Austin, the new capital, has 850 residents
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The first college chartered by the Republic, Rutersville College, is founded
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Galveston University opens its doors to five students
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President Mirabeau B. Lamar sends the Texas Navy to the Yucatan coast
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William Kennedy publishes Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas
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Texans again elect Sam Houston president of the Republic
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General Adrian Woll and about 1,400 Mexican soldiers capture San Antonio
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Snider de Pellegrini, director of a French colonization company, brings 14 settlers to Texas
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The Tehuacana Creek Councils lead to peace between Texans and several Texas Indian groups
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Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels comes to Texas followed by a group of German immigrants
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President Sam Houston sends troops into East Texas to end the Regulator Moderator War
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Texans elect Anson Jones president of the Republic
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The United States annexes Texas
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At least 30,00 enslaved African Americans live in Texas
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Thomas J. Rusk and Sam Houston become the first Texans to serve in the U.S. Senate
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Fighting breaks out between U.S. forces and Mexican troops at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma
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Texas signs a peace treaty with the Penateka Comanches
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A state census reports the state's population at more than 142,00
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Samuel H. Walker dies in combat during a conflict in Mexico
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George T. Wood is elected governor of Texas
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The Texas population reaches 200,000 people
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In her book Texas in 1850, Melinda Rankin describes the state and urges people to move to Texas
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Work begins in the Port Isabel Lighthouse. When completed, its light could be seen from 16 miles away
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U.S. Army troops abandon Fort Worth after settlers move farther west beyond the fort
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After many false starts,track is finally laid for the Buffalo Bayou,Brazos,and Colorado Railway
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The American, or Know-Nothing, Party becomes active in Texas
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The Governor's Mansion is built in Austin
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Slaves in Colorado County acquire weapons and plan a rebellion, but the plot is discovered before it can begin
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The Butterflied Overland Mail begins taking passengers and mail by stagecoach from Missouri, through Texas, and on to California
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A series of clashes occurs between Texas Rangers and Mexican Americans near Brownsville
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Texas produces a record crop of more than 400,000 bales of cotton
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Sam Houston easily defeats incumbent harden Runnels in the election for Texas governor
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Texans vote, by more than three to one, to secede from the United States
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The Texas Frontier Regiment is established
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Troops leave San Antonio for New Mexico, planning to capture the Southwest for the Confederacy
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Union forces capture Galveston
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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The Texas cattle population increases rapidly during the Civil War
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A Union attempt to invade Texas is turned back at Sabine Pass
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Union troops capture Brownsville
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In a battle near Mansfield, Louisiana, Confederate forces stop a Union invasion of northeastern Texas
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Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson leads an attack against Plains Indians in the Panhandle
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect in Texas, freeing the state's slaves
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The last land battle of the war is fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas
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Fort Richardson is established near Jacksboro
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African American George T.Ruby is elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention
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Texas cowboys move a herd of 15,000 cattle to market. It is the largest single herd of the era
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Republican Edmund J. Davis is elected governor
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Texas has 583 miles of rail lines
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A public school system is created in Texas
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clarksville received 109.4 inches of rain
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Ranchers begin to ship thousands of cattle from Denision after the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad extends a line there
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The Democratic Party regains full control of state government
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Plains Indians attack a group of buffalo hunters in the Battle of Adobe Walls
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Comanche leader Quanah Parker surrenders, ending the Red River War
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About 2,700 animals die during a cattle stampede near the Brazos River
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Texas A&M University opens as an all-male military institution
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Texas adopts a new constitution
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The Texas legislature passes a law that allows the state to fund railroads with land grants
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Apache leader Victorio launches raids along the Texas-Mexico border
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The Texas and Pacific Railway meets the Southern Pacific line near El Paso, forming the first transcontinental railroad route through Texas
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A ranch in the Panhandle purchases enough barbed wire to fence 250,000 acres
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The University of Texas formally opens
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The Knights of Labor begin a major strike against Jay Gould's railroad company
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The Texas legislature passes the Antitrust Act of 1889
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There are more than 8,000 miles of railroad track in Texas
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Texas Normal College and Teachers' Training Institute, now called the University of North Texas, opens in Denton
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The Texas Railroad Commission is established to regulate railroads in Texas
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A leading association of farmers endorses the Populist Party
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The first football game is played between the University of Texas and Texas A&M
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Drillers strike oil in Corsicana
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Drillers strike oil in Corsicana
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Teddy Roosevelt organizes and trains the Rough Riders in San Antonio
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The lowest temperature in Texas was -23 degrees in Tulia
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A hurricane hits Galveston, killing some 6,000 to 8,000 people
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Texas has more than 350,000 farms, and almost half of all farmers are tenant farmers
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The Spindletop well strikes oil, producing more than 17 million barrels of oil the next year
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The Corsicana Oilers set a baseball record by defeating the Texarkana team 51 to 3
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A large oil strike is made in the Humble oil field in Harris County
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The first Neiman Marcus department store opens in Dallas
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Oil is discovered at Goose Creek along Galveston Bay
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Jovita Idar becomes the first president of the League of Mexican Woman
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The Houston Ship Channel opens, and Houston soon becomes an important oil-refining center
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The Houston Ship Channel is completed, leading to the growth of industry in the Houston area
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Texas ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bans the sale or manufacture of alcohol
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Texas troops are sent to France to fight in World War 1
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An application is filed to drill for oil on state-owned land in West-Texas. Several years later the Santa Rita No. 1 Strikes oil
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Governor William Hobby breaks a dockworkers' strike in Galveston
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Texans elect Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson as the state's first female governor
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Automobile Registrations reach 1 million
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For the first time in the state's history, the majority of Texans vote for a Republican presidential candidate-Herbert Hoover
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Some 300,000 Texans are unemployed
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James V Allred is elected governor of Texas
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Texas celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Texas Revolution
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The hottest temperature in Texas was 120 degrees in Seymour
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Texans elect W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel as governor
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Large numbers of Texans volunteer for military service in World War 2
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The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Texas white primary unconstitutional
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Texan Audie Murphy receives the Medal of Honor for stopping a German tank attack in France
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More than 3 million automobiles are registered in Texas
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Allan Shivers successfully runs for a third term as governor
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wink received just 1.76 inches of rain
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Texas woman call for an equal rights amendment to the state constitution
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Texas musician Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Texas owns Gulf coastal tidelands up to a 10.35-mile limit
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the Texas timber industry earned more than $1.9 billion
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sales of Texas livestock totaled more than $10.8 billoin
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the value of Texas cotton production reached over $1.5 billon
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texas produced about 730 million barrels of crude oil worth some $55 billion
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agriculture added $36 billion to the texas economy
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there were more than 244,700 farms in texas
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Texas exports of computers and electronics were worth more than $45 billion