Author: Ralph Abraham Selle
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Ralph Selle
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341648571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Wylie Apton Parker
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Considers (74) H.J. Res. 293.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Texas Centennial Commission
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Author: Barbara J. Rozek
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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"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.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2620

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Author: Texas Centennial of Statehood Commission
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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