zachary taylor's army camp in the region between the rio grande -- the strip between the two rivers caused the outbursts of anger to cause the mexican-american war. it was the campground for or thousand men, half of the army at the time. they were all here. after the war was over, henry mckinney, came back to corpus christi and was trying to make it a thriving city. the first texas state fair happen in 1852, seven years before the series affairs that we know today. about 20,000 circulars went out to the world. he convinced only 2000 people to come to corpus christi. it did not provide quite the boom he thought it would. he bought very elaborate presentation tablets to our ward to the winning competitors in the fair categories. agriculture in corpus christi brought many of the day, wealthy families to the area. corpus christi has subsisted mostly on agricultural based in sheep, cotton, and cattle. king ranch relies mostly on cattle. they had the famous brand. he fenced his lands and barbed wire. it stopped rogues transporting any goods through his lands without his control. he also controll

young whigs at that time to oppose the mexican war and support the presidential candidacy of zachary taylor. seward on the right and senator virginia hunter on the left had been friends with stewart for 12 years. they were both fellow aristocrats. they were both whigs and good friends. this is the old senate chamber where they met at that time. they would have sit on the near side to us with jeff davis sitting over on the left with the democrats. you can sort of get a sense for what it is like to have these close friends for 12 years find themselves enemies coming together at the end of this horrific war. lincoln and stevens greet each other warmly. lincoln has a foot on stevens in height. stevens has what people described as a lilliputian voice. reaches up to lincoln, shakes his and, calls in mr. president. lincoln calls him stevens which is a familiar masculine kind of form of address that is just right. it does not snub his title, it doesn't recognize it either. there is an immediate warmth. stevens is wearing this wool overcoat. he looked like a large man, or least a normal-sized man. l