The Texas Star , by Joseph A. Altsheler (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. Pp. 372), is a story for boys, detailing the adventures of Edward Fulton, a fictitious youth who voluntarily went to Mexico to share the imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin in 1834, and who, divining Santa Anna's purpose of subjugating Texas, escaped to warn the Texans. A number of historical characters, both Texan and Mexican, appear in the book, which on the whole pictures the conditions of the period with a good deal of accuracy. Austin appears only in the early chapters of the book.

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"The Texas Star", Volume 016, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 437. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v016/n4/review_34.html
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