Joe Gokaho/2009.09.14 D2
I found Texas history is quiet interesting. My latest fascination is about the original Bexar County, before formation of the Republic and joining the Unions.
The Texas Republic - encompassed an area that included all of the present U.S. state of Texas, and parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. There was only county, Bexar County, that encompasses the current west Texas (1/2 of Texas, and New Mexico Colorado and Wyoming. Image, the you're the one - Bexar County Sheriff, overseeing an area larger than the state of California ..