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Come to Texas : attracting immigrants, 1865-1915 / Barbara J. Rozek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rozek, Barbara J., 1945-
- Series:
- Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 94.
- Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 94
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Government policy--Texas--History.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Texas--History.
- Texas--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Texas.
- Texas--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here Rozek sheds light on the importance of words, in the form of advertisements, newspapers, and private letters, in peopling the Lone Star State.
- Contents:
- Words of enticement
- A bureau of immigration
- Closing the government door
- Words, words, words
- A tantalizing array of inivitations
- Government gets the message out
- Advertising Texas
- Railroading people in
- Galveston and the immigrants
- Texas, the immigrant state.
- Notes:
- TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.
- Titre de l'ecran-titre (visionne le 8 août 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05238-X
- 1-60344-706-7
- 1-58544-869-9
- OCLC:
- 70749578
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