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Texas’ First Printer Couldn’t Catch a Break
On Feb. 16, 1817, a Boston teenager with a hand-cranked press produced the first printed words in Texas history – the longwinded manifesto of a doomed expedition.
On his way to free Mexico from Spanish tyranny, Francisco Xavier Mina docked at an American port to take on provisions. He also picked up a printer for his British-made press, an adventurous 16 year old named Samuel Bangs.
During a…
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