![]() ![]() Grant proclaimed Reconstruction in Texas over and readmitted Texas into the United States. Only in 1870 would the Texas legislature ratify the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments then, at last, President Ulysses S. The newly elected Eleventh Texas Legislature refused to ratify either the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, or the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black Americans. Though Travis and his family live in a rural community and are largely insulated from the politics of the time, the mid-to-late 1860s saw great unrest throughout the state of Texas. ![]() During the events of the book, Travis Coates’s Texas is in a period of Reconstruction. ![]() Old Yeller is set in the late 1860s, soon after the end of the Civil War in 1865. ![]()
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