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A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812?1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorc?e, Sarah Medissa Day (1822?1856). The lives of these two Texas pioneers and their extended family would become so entwined in the events and experiences of the nascent nation and state that their story represents a social history of nineteenth-century Texas. From his arrival as a sergeant with the Georgia Battalion, through the ill-fated 1855 expedition that bears his name, to his shooting death in a feud with a neighbor, Callahan was a soldier, a Texas Ranger, a rancher, and a land developer, at every turn making his mark on the evolving Guadalupe River Basin. Separately, Sarah?s family?s journey reflected the experience of many immigrants to Texas after its war of independence. Thomas O. McDonald traces the pair?s respective paths to their meeting, then follows as, together, they contend with
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