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Auto Transport to
Texas:
Auto Transport to Texas is our business. National Auto Transport is one of the
largest transporters of personally owned vehicles in the country. Covering all
50 states, we offer an unprecedented level of service and commitment to moving
our customer's vehicles.
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[Auto Transport to Texas]
Texas information
When foreigners hear the word "America," they think of Texas: pickup trucks,
cowboys, country and western music, Dallas the city, and Dallas the TV
show. Indeed, that's the image most Americans have, too.
Now, contrast this with a state that's leading the country in high-tech
production and is at the heart of a gourmet movement with some of the U.S.'s
finest restaurants within its borders. It's home to the largest oil industry in
the lower 48 and surpassingly it is also home to one of the country's biggest
wine-growing regions. And as more and more are discovering, Austin is America's
"New Music Capital," with the country's most important annual music festival,
South By Southwest, and it is one of the leading film centers also.
Texas is full of surprises. Nowhere in the country is the stereotypical
American way of life so entrenched, yet few sections of the country are as
influenced by Spanish, Mexican, and European residents as Texas. With one of the
largest German, Czech, French, and Mexican populations in the U.S., Texas is
hardly the homogenous land of the white cowboy it would initially appear to be.
The Native American inhabitants of Texas included Comanches, Kiowas, Lipan
Apaches, Mescalero Apaches, and Tonkawas in the plains; Tampachoas, Karankawas,
Coahuiltecans, Jumanos, and the Conchos in the west; and Caddoes, Atakapans, and
Wichitas in the southeast. The Spanish arrived in 1519, but didn't really settle
in until 1690; by that time they had taken a very bad Spanish pronunciation of
the Caddo word for friend, tejas, and used it to describe the entire
territory.
From then on, Texas became a crossroads for just about every immigrant group
that settled in the U.S. Large contingents of Czech, German, and French settlers
made their way to the center of the state while Americans came through on their
way to California and Mexico. Also, many Mexican chose to settle here. Texas was
first a Spanish, then a Mexican territory, and was for 10 years its own
independent republic, with its Lone Star flag, before acquiring statehood in
1845.
One of America's most famous and hallowed battles took place during the Texas
War for Independence: the Battle of the Alamo. Against huge odds and an army of
thousands, 160 men including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis, held
out for 13 days before finally succumbing to the advance of Mexican troops. The
Mexican victory was a costly one, as Texas soldiers fighting for independence
used the "massacre" as a rallying cry: "Remember the Alamo!" The Mexicans were
defeated soon after in the Battle of San Jacinto, by troops under the command of
Sam Houston.
Today Texas remains fiercely proud of its immigrant and warrior heritage, and
celebrates its diversity in a surprising number of ways, from statewide
recognition of the Mexican Day of the Dead, to the central Texas Oktoberfest.
There is something for everyone is Texas, from the mountains and white water
rivers of the west to the stark central plains, from the modern madness of
Dallas and the chic cattle town of Ft. Worth to the coastal resorts along the
Gulf of Mexico. In addition to all of this is the fascinating culture clash
along the Mexican border and the cosmopolitan chic of Austin and San Antonio.
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