... out, Davis was better connected than the editors first realized. The Flag ’s staff also shared much in common with him and the other Anglo volunteers who flooded into the region during the war. Lead editor, Isaac Neville Fleeson, had immigrated to Texas in 1842 to join a ranger company...

... borderlands Mexico Texas California Oregon ANDREW C. ISENBERG AND THOMAS RICHARDS , JR . Alternative Wests Rethinking Manifest Destiny ABSTRACT The mid-nineteenth century territorial growth of the United States was complex and contradictory. Not only did Mexico, Britain, and Native Americans contest...

... that these settlers, traditionally seen as the vanguard of Manifest Destiny, were attracted to Mexico for its cheap land and rich natural resources. Such interpretations have lent a tone of inevitability to events like the Texas Revolution. This article argues that the early members of these groups were attracted...