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Mansfield</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Mormon Battalion by Michael N Landon & Brandon J Metcalf</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Old West: The Mexican War by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Old West: The Texans by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Mormon Battalion by Norman Baldwin Ricketts</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">A Newer World by David Roberts</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott by Richard Smith Elliott</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Texas and the Mexican War: A Chronicle of the Winning of the Southwest, Volume 24 by Nathaniel Stephenson</p></div> <style id="container-styles">#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1782930296460_6945 { --stroke-style: none;--stroke-thickness: 2px; 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This episode focuses on the decade following the Texas Revolution with Mexican reprisals, international intrigue, the annexation of Texas, and the coming war between Mexico and the US. It includes Sam Houston, Lamar, the Black Bean incident, President Polk, Sam Grant, and a whole lot more. 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Mansfield</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Mormon Battalion by Michael N Landon & Brandon J Metcalf</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Old West: The Mexican War by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Old West: The Texans by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by David Nevin</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Mormon Battalion by Norman Baldwin Ricketts</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">A Newer World by David Roberts</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott by Richard Smith Elliott</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Texas and the Mexican War: A Chronicle of the Winning of the Southwest, Volume 24 by Nathaniel Stephenson</p></div> <style id="container-styles">#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1782930296460_6945 { --stroke-style: none;--stroke-thickness: 2px; 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