Category: Land Speculation

• The "Texas" Independence Hoax

  This theory argues that the Texas Revolution was less a genuine revolt than a land-speculation operation backed by Eastern money, with New York interests allegedly fabricating or exaggerating Alamo reports to generate support and raise land values. It attaches itself to real speculation, fundraising, and political maneuvering around Texas, all of which are historically documented. The unsupported leap is the claim that the revolution as a whole was staged and that the Alamo narrative was knowingly faked as part of a coordinated investor fraud.