[PDF.98tg] Come to Texas: Attracting Immigrants, 1865-1915 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 94)

“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 ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Come to Texas: Attracting Immigrants, 1865-1915 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 94)   |  Barbara J. Rozek.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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