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Author Jones, C. Allan.

Title Texas roots : agriculture and rural life before the Civil War / C. Allan Jones.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Texas A & M University agriculture series ; no. 8
Texas A & M University agriculture series ; no. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Texas -- History -- To 1846.
Texas.
History.
Chronological Term To 1846
Subject Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.
Chronological Term 1846-1950
Subject Texas -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Ranch life -- Texas -- History.
Ranch life.
Farm life -- Texas -- History.
Farm life.
Plantation life -- Texas -- History.
Plantation life.
Agriculture -- Texas -- History.
Agriculture.
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Texas -- History.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term To 1950
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Jones, C. Allan. Texas roots. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005 1585444189 (DLC) 2004018516 (OCoLC)56319650
ISBN 9781603446020 (electronic book)
1603446028 (electronic book)
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