TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE

Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges@ gmail.com.

Lorenzo de Zavala was a man of great ideas. He was an outspoken writer and editor as well as a diplomat, businessman, physician, and statesman. With all these accomplishments in his short life, he became revered as one of the architects of Texas independence.

He was born in 1788 in the Yucatan…