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Originals: Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, May 26, 1837 Page: 3 of 4

Telegraph and Texas Register (a newspaper in San Felipe, Texas) prints a notice of reward for the runaway slave, Joe, who was the only known male survivor of the battle of the Alamo.

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Who was Joe?

Introduces students to Joe, the enslaved man owned by William Barret Travis during the Texas Revolution.

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Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper prints notice of reward for the runaway slave, Joe. by UNT Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license .

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