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Land! : Irish pioneers in Mexican and revolutionary Texas
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- Creator
- Graham Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781585441891, 1585441899
- OCLC
- ocm48796518
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-292) and index.
- The province of Texas in newly independent Mexico -- The context of emigration: prefamine Ireland -- Irish recruitment and the settlements of San Patricio and Refugio -- The Irish and the Texas Revolution, 1835-36 -- The life of pioneer settlers in Texas -- Ranching culture and the Texas cattle king: Thomas O'Connor of Refugio County
Subjects
- Irish Americans -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
- Pioneers -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
- Businessmen -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
- Land settlement -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
- Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836.
- Texas -- History -- To 1846.
- San Patricio County (Tex.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Refugio County (Tex.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Texas -- Biography.