AUSTIN, Texas, July 2 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
On the occasion of America's 250th birthday, we looked around the University of Texas campus for artifacts, portrayals and references to our nation's founders. We didn't have to go very far.
George Washington Letter
UT's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History holds a letter written by George Washington. The letter, among the few to reside in Texas historical collections, according to the center, discusses the killing of three Indians by white settlers. It was acquired by the Briscoe Center in 2013 due to the generosity of Barron Kidd of Dallas. Washington discusses the murder ("for it deserves no other name," he wrote) of three members of the ...