Author: Texas. Dept. of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau of the Dept. of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and History
Author: Texas. Dept. of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Forgotten Texas Census
Author: L. L. FosterPublisher: Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Tex
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
First annual report of the agricultural bureau of the department of agriculture, insurance, statistics, and history, 1887-88.
Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau of the Dept. of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and History
Author: Texas. Dept. of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Report of the Secretary of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Come to Texas
Author: Barbara J. RozekPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
“Come to Texas” urged countless advertisements, newspaper articles, and private letters in the late nineteenth century. Expansive acres lay fallow, ready to be turned to agricultural uses. Entrepreneurial Texans knew that drawing immigrants to those lands meant greater prosperity for the state as a whole and for each little community in it. They turned their hands to directing the stream of spatial mobility in American society to Texas. They told the “Texas story” to whoever would read it. In this book, Barbara Rozek documents their efforts, shedding light on the importance of their words in peopling the Lone Star State and on the optimism and hopes of the people who sought to draw others. Rozek traces the efforts first of the state government (until 1876) and then of private organizations, agencies, businesses, and individuals to entice people to Texas. The appeals, in whatever form, were to hope—hope for lower infant mortality rates, business and farming opportunities, education, marriage—and they reflected the hopes of those writing. Rozek states clearly that the number of words cannot be proven to be linked directly to the number of immigrants (Texas experienced a population increase of 672 percent between 1860 and 1920), but she demonstrates that understanding the effort is itself important. Using printed materials and private communications held in numerous archives as well as pictures of promotional materials, she shows the energy and enthusiasm with which Texans promoted their native or adopted home as the perfect home for others. Texas is indeed an immigrant state—perhaps by destiny; certainly, Rozek demonstrates, by design.
Classification and Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture ...
Author: Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Bibliographical Contributions
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Sutherland Springs, Texas
Author: Richard B. McCaslinPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate developers, initially more interested in oil, brought Sutherland Springs to its peak as a resort in the early twentieth century, but failed to transform the farming settlement into a resort town. The decline in water tables during the late twentieth century reduced the mineral water flows, and the town faded. Sutherland Springs’s history thus provides great insights into the importance of water in shaping settlement. Beyond the story of resort spa aspirations lies a history of the community and its people itself. McCaslin provides a complete history of Sutherland Springs from early settlement through Civil War and into the twentieth century, its agricultural and oil-drilling exploits alongside its mineral water appeal, as well as a complete community history of the various settlers and owners of the springs/hotel.