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The Governor's Task Force

• Dr. Travis Barlow is summoned to the office of the governor of Texas, where he is introduced to a group of four people: Ransom Rusk, Lorenzo Quimper, Lorena Cobb, and Professor Efrain Garza.

• The governor wants a report in time for the Texas Sesquicentennial. It is to emphasize what makes Texas unique from other states and how to instill a love for Texas in the children.

• The group is to travel around the state and hold meetings in different areas.

• Barlow is appointed the chairman of the Task Force.

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• Lorena says the report should emphasize the seven cultural inheritances that include Indian, Spanish-Mexican, Kentucky-Tennessee settlers, settlers from the Old South, the Blacks, Cowboys, German, and European settlers.

• Each of the members of the Task Force has a long family history in Texas.

Chapter I, Land of Many Lands

• A ten-year-old boy named Garcilaco loads...

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