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Gone to Texas (often abbreviated GTT), was a phrase used by Americans emigrating to Texas in the 1800s. During the Panic of 1819, many left the United States and moved there to escape debt. Moving to Texas, which at the time was part of Mexico, was particularly popular among debtors from the South and West. Emigrants or their abandoned neighbors often wrote the phrase on doors of abandoned houses or posted as a sign on fences.
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