STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Join Dr. Deborah Liles at the W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, for a narrative regarding Texas, an attempt at expansion and its impacts on its antebellum years with her presentation \u201cWilliam, Marcellus French, and the Alamo Rangers in Nicaragua.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the spring of 1855, one of America\u2019s most notorious filibusters, William Walker, invaded Nicaragua to capitalize on that country\u2019s civil war. Two years later, the San Antonio Ledger reported, \u201cA large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends and sympathizers of Gen. Walker was held in front of the courthouse on this evening.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly thereafter, the “Alamo Rangers” headed to Nicaragua to assist Walker’s colonization efforts. Led by Capt. Marcellus French, the foray explains much about Texans during the antebellum years, and about French, whose role in multiple arenas firmly connects him to Texas and American history during the second half of the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Zoom link is available for this program. Contact the museum at 254-968-1886 or email gordoncenter@tarelton.edu<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center, a facility of Tarleton State University, is located at 65258 Interstate 20, Exit 367, in Mingus and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays. The combined museum and special collections library is located at the site of the Thurber ghost town. To learn more about the museum, visit www.tarleton.edu\/gordoncenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Join Dr. Deborah Liles at the W.K. Gordon Museum and Research Center at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, for a narrative regarding Texas, an attempt at expansion …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":51479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":424,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,425],"tags":[442,460],"class_list":["post-53619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-events","category-campus-community","tag-community-events","tag-w-k-gordon-center-for-industrial-history-of-texas"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2024\/08\/Tuesday_Talks-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Arts & Events<\/a>","Campus & Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Arts & Events<\/span>","Campus & Community<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Community Events<\/a>","W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Community Events<\/span>","W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 months ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 15, 2025","modified":"Updated on October 10, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 15, 2025 8:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 10, 2025 8:26 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Dr. Deborah Liles standing on a decorative staircase, with 'Tuesday Talks' and 'W.K. Gordon Museum' text on a purple background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54454,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53619\/revisions\/54454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}