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Val, to me that's the state food instead of chili!
'Course I like white gravy slathered all over it!

If you're ever on your way to Brownsville, stop at Riveria at the Brush Country Inn, and get a chicken fried.
DON'T get the big one unless you want to eat it for three days!

Here's what I mean by a long, flat, forever, Texas Highway: (I hope this picture stays here - if not let me know). We don't have highways like this in NC - with wide open spaces that go on and on and on flat and open like this forever (it seems).

By October 24, 1835, the Texan army of settlers had driven Cos and his army back to the Alamo at San Antonio.
As seige was laid, word began to trickle out to the rest of America about what was happening in Texas, and it attracted the attention of men like Sam Houston, Davy Crockett and James Bowie.
Volunteers began to arrive in Texas for the sheer joy of fighting for their principles.

This volunteer army is described by one Noah Southwick:

"Words are inadequate to convey an impression of the first Texas army as it formed in marching order.....it certainly bore little resemblance to the army of my childhood dreams. Buckskin breeches were the nearest approach to uniform and here was a wide diversity even there, some being new and soft and yellow, while others, from long familiarity with rain and grease and dirt, had become hard and black and shiny....Boots being an unknown quantity, some wore shoes and some moccasins. Here a broad brimmed sombrero overshadowed the military cap at it's side; there the tall 'beegum' rode familiarly beside a coon-skin cap, with a tail hanging down behind, as all well regulated tails should do. Here a big American horse loomed above the nimble Spanish pony....there a half-broke mustang pranced beside a sober, methodical mule.....in lieu of a canteen each man carried a Spanish gourd....A fantastic miltary array to the casual observer, but the one great purpose animating every heart clothed us in a uniform more perfect in our eyes than was ever donned by regulars on dress parade."

"Lone Star" - T.F. Fehrenbach