Texas Rising

[Jeemie]

I tell you...SSS and Bob Juch are masters at reelin' them in...

[BackInTex]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I learned something today from BiT.

I just actually learned it only a few weeks ago. I don't recall the reason for looking it up, perhaps something I saw online around San Jacinto Day (April 21), but I did not realize before that the song was historical. Also, there is an upscale hotel across the street from the Alamo named the Emily Morgan. I've known of the hotel for many years but not the background for the name.

Hopefully it will get you an extra correct answer at trivia sometime.

[TheConfessor]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I learned something today from BiT.

I just actually learned it only a few weeks ago. I don't recall the reason for looking it up, perhaps something I saw online around San Jacinto Day (April 21), but I did not realize before that the song was historical. Also, there is an upscale hotel across the street from the Alamo named the Emily Morgan. I've known of the hotel for many years but not the background for the name.

Hopefully it will get you an extra correct answer at trivia sometime.

Did you go to high school in Texas? I thought everyone was supposed to be fully indoctrinated in Texas history and legends in order to graduate. I'm an immigrant here, but I've certainly heard the popular story of the Yellow Rose of Texas song many times since I got here. In 1836, Emily West Morgan was also a recent immigrant to Texas from Connecticut, brought in as an indentured servant, and she moved back to New York about a year later. Her legacy is indirectly honored every day in Austin, where the oldest local gentlemen's club is called The Yellow Rose.

Before I moved here, I mostly just knew the song as a #1 hit for Mitch Miller, and the parody version by Stan Freberg.

[BackInTex]

Did you go to high school in Texas? I thought everyone was supposed to be fully indoctrinated in Texas history and legends in order to graduate.

I might have missed that day.

[Bob Juch]

Did you go to high school in Texas? I thought everyone was supposed to be fully indoctrinated in Texas history and legends in order to graduate.

I might have missed that day.

I knew that but have spent only about a year and a half in total in Texas. I read a detailed history of the Mexican War years ago even though my great-great-grandfather Joe Yancey spent only 90 days in the First Mississippi Rifles (Federal law limited volunteers to just that). He fought at Monterrey.