Lone Star by Fehrenbach Reading Assignment #1 (pg. 311) "Ranking in Texas"

A Dog-Run type House. This is actually the kind of house that is used in the book Old Yeller. 

     Frehrenbach talks about Texas as a country and how the people in Texas ranked each other.

Here are some Facts/Arguments Frehrenbach states on page 311.

• It was hard to find class conflict in Texas; Might have been because Texas just became a country.
• The aristo-democracy of Texas worked well, because every citizen was, or had the opportunity to be, a freeholder.
• It was, of course,  impossible for any Texas white to identify with blacks.
• The life of plantation whites was a different world from the disorder and labor of the average dog-run (cabin w/ and opening in the center)
• Austin's Old Three Hundred embraced settlement in Texas and started building houses.