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Join us for a discussion examining Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape.

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Take a mid-day break with our free High Noon Talks! Discover interesting and often untold stories of Texas at our casual lunchtime series.

Leading Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin will be joined by best-selling Texas author Stephen Harrigan for an in-depth discussion of Hardin's new book, Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy and the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction. Hardin will be available to sign copies of the book, which can be purchased on-site, after the High Noon Talk from 1–1:30 p.m.

Texian Exodus transports readers to the frigid, sodden spring of 1836, when thousands of Texians—Anglo-American settlers—fled eastward for the United States in fear of Antonio López de Santa Anna’s advancing Mexican Army. Hardin draws on the accounts of the Runaways themselves to relate a tale of high stakes and great sorrow.

This program is FREE to the public.