Texas History
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  1850s
  The decade of the 1850s saw the beginnings of civilization on the Texas frontier. It wasn't much, but it was a beginning, a very hard beginning.
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  1860s
  The decade of the 1860s was a decade like no other on the Texas frontier. With the Civil War raging, those men who were left on the frontier were hard pressed to protect their families from the Indians who took the war as their chance to win back "their" land. The years after the war were just as difficult as Texans tried to put their lives back together.
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  1870s
  By the 1870s the frontier of Texas crawled with outlaws, many of whom were spawned by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Central Texas seemed to have more than its share of hard times.
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  1880s
  By the time 1880 rolled around, life seemed to be looking up in so many ways here on the Texas frontier. Some towns finally had the rail road, and while there was still plenty of action here in Central Texas, it seemed that the outlaws had at least been forced to take cover. Then came the drought of 1886...
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  1890s
  By the 1890s the rail had come to many places on the Texas frontier. For the first time settlers had an easier access to the outside world. Yes, they were making progress.
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  1900s
  The turn of the twentieth century brought much progress with it. Although it would be years before the people of Central Texas gave up their wagons, the automobile did make a few appearances. Cotton was once again King, well,at least until the Boll Weavel stopped that.
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  1910s
  Times were looking up in Texas during this decade. Of course before the end of the decade, Texas would send many of its sons across world and into the first World War.
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  1920s
  The decade of the 1920s was a very interesting decade to say the least. While many of our smaller Texas towns could boast of much progress, life was still very primitive by today's standards. The decade seems to be a decade a contrasts, from the airplane to the farm wagon by which so many still traveled.
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  1930s
  The Depression years were hard in rural Texas, but most had weathered hard times and they could do it again. Even in the midst of the country's financial ruin, Texans also found time to have good times.
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  1940s
  The 1940s saw American enter into WWII and come out on the other side of the Depression.
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  1950s
  The1950s may have been the hayday for Comanche County and Central Texas, and yet the severe drought of this decade brought great hardship to the agriculture industry, which was the backbone of the state.
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