Author: Sandra PalominoPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672656
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
HSA Texana Auction Catalog #6003
Author: Sandra PalominoPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672656
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Texas Almanac for ... and Emigrant's Guide to Texas
Author: Check List of Texas Imprints, 1846-1876
Author: Ernest William WinklerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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.
Check List of Texas Imprints: 1861-1876
Author: Ernest William WinklerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
An expansion of a check list begun by the Historical Records Survey for the American imprints inventory and continued under the State-Wide Library Project in Texas.
Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900
Author: John Martin Davis, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476625301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers ventured into the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. West Texas was described as "Great Space of Land Unknown" and Spanish sovereigns wanted to fill that void. Gaining independence from Spain, Mexico launched a land grant program with contractors who recruited emigrants. After the Texas Revolution in 1835, a system of Castilian edicts and English common law came into use. Lacking hard currency, land became the coin of the realm and the Republic gave generous grants to loyal first families and veterans. Through multiple homestead programs, more than 200 million acres had been deeded by the end of the 19th century. The author has relied on close examination of special acts, charters and litigation, including many previously overlooked documents.
Engraved Prints of Texas
Author: Mavis Parrott KelseyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442706
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A collection of illustrated black-and-white engravings depicting the history of Texas from 1554 to 1900 presented chronologically and featuring a brief introduction to the historical background of each era.
Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
Author: Elliott YoungPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz. Made up of a broad cross-border alliance of ranchers, merchants, peasants, and disgruntled military men, Garza’s revolution was the largest and longest lasting threat to the Díaz regime up to that point. After two years of sporadic fighting, the combined efforts of the U.S. and Mexican armies, Texas Rangers, and local police finally succeeded in crushing the rebellion. Garza went into exile and was killed in Panama in 1895. Elliott Young provides the first full-length analysis of the revolt and its significance, arguing that Garza’s rebellion is an important and telling chapter in the formation of the border between Mexico and the United States and in the histories of both countries. Throughout the nineteenth century, the borderlands were a relatively coherent region. Young analyzes archival materials, newspapers, travel accounts, and autobiographies from both countries to show that Garza’s revolution was more than just an effort to overthrow Díaz. It was part of the long struggle of borderlands people to maintain their autonomy in the face of two powerful and encroaching nation-states and of Mexicans in particular to protect themselves from being economically and socially displaced by Anglo Americans. By critically examining the different perspectives of military officers, journalists, diplomats, and the Garzistas themselves, Young exposes how nationalism and its preeminent symbol, the border, were manufactured and resisted along the Rio Grande.
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