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Author : James Burke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Burke's Texas Almanac and Immigrants' Handbook for ... written by James Burke and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
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Author : Barbara J. Rozek
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442676
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Come to Texas written by Barbara J. Rozek and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Skip Hollandsworth
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805097678
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Midnight Assassin written by Skip Hollandsworth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
Author : John Martin Davis, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625301
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900 written by John Martin Davis, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Samuel Nugent Townshend
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806157070
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Our Indian Summer in the Far West written by Samuel Nugent Townshend and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1879 two Englishmen, writer Samuel Nugent Townshend and photographer John George Hyde, set out for a pleasant Indian summer on a tour of the American West. The duo documented their travels by steamship and train, through Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, across the Missouri to the “new state of Kansas” and the beginning of the western lands and business opportunities that were to become the focus of their narrative. Reprinted here with critical notes and introduction, Our Indian Summer in the Far West offers an enlightening—and often entertaining—perspective on an early moment in the growth of capitalism and industry in the American West. Originally published as a photographic travelogue and guide to British investment in the American West, Townshend and Hyde’s account is both idiosyncratic and emblematic of its time. Interested in the West’s economic and environmental potential, the two men focused on farming in Kansas, railroads and mining in Colorado, a bear hunt in New Mexico, and ranching in Texas. The sojourners’ own foibles also enter the narrative: alerted to the difficulty of finding a hotel with a bath, the two Victorians took along a portable bathtub made of India rubber. Their words and pictures speak volumes about contemporary attitudes toward race, empire, and the future of civilization. An introduction by coeditor Alex Hunt provides background on the creators and the travelogue genre. The recovery and republication of this extremely rare volume, an artifact of the Victorian American West, make available an important primary document of a brief but pivotal historical moment connecting the American West and the British Empire.
Author : John Stricklin Spratt
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306420
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Road to Spindletop written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an economic history of Texas at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1875, Texas was an agrarian state with limited industry. A generation later, agriculture was heavily commercialized, thousands of miles of railroads carried people and goods around the state, and urban populations increased rapidly. Even before the Spindletop gusher that irrevocably changed the state’s future, Texas had already moved far from its days as a Mexican and American frontier.
Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Periodicals and Other Serial Publications written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Library Bulletin written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Periodicals and Other Serial Publications written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Periodicals and Other Serial Publications (exclusive of U.S. Government Publications) in the Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355889
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Kenna Lang Archer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
