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Author Jones, C. Allan

Title Texas roots : agriculture and rural life before the Civil War / C. Allan Jones
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Texas A & M University agriculture series ; no. 8
Texas A & M University agriculture series ; no. 8.
Contents Los Tejanos: Farming and Ranching in Hispanic South Texas -- Indian and Spanish Colonial Origins -- Missions and Farms on the Río San Antonio -- Ranching along the Río San Antonio -- Settlements between the Río Grande and Río Nueces -- Conflict and Decline -- The Texians: Antebellum Farmers and Stock Raisers -- Gone to Texas -- Plantations and Slavery -- Hunting and Stock Raising -- Cotton, Corn, Sugarcane, and Wheat
Summary In today's Texas, with its growing urban populations and big-city lifestyles, it is worth remembering that in 1850 only 10 percent of Texans lived in towns with as many as 100 people. The rest
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Ranch life -- Texas -- History
Farm life -- Texas -- History
Plantation life -- Texas -- History
Agriculture -- Texas -- History
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Texas -- History
Farm life -- Texas -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Agriculture
Agriculture -- Social aspects
Farm life
Manners and customs
Plantation life
Ranch life
Landwirtschaft
Landleben
Agriculture -- Texas (États-Unis)
SUBJECT Texas -- History -- To 1846. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134262
Texas -- History -- 1846-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134269
Texas -- Social life and customs
Subject Texas
Texas
Texas (États-Unis)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004018516
ISBN 9781603446020
1603446028
1299053920
9781299053922