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Also known as: Lone Star State
Written by
Ralph A. Wooster
Associate Vice President; Dean of Faculties, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Author of Secession Conventions of the South and others.
Ralph A. Wooster,
DeWitt C. Reddick
Jesse H. Jones Professor of Journalism and Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1970–75.
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Texas, constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 28th state of the union in 1845. Texas occupies the south-central segment of the country and is the largest state in area except for Alaska. The state extends nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from north to south and about the same distance from east to west. Water delineates many of its borders. The wriggling course of the Red River makes up the eastern two-thirds of Texas’s boundary with Oklahoma to the north, while the remainder of the northern boundary is the Panhandle, which juts northward, forming a counterpart ...(100 of 7369 words)

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