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To the vast and beautiful land : Anglo migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s-1820s / Light Townsend Cummins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummins, Light Townsend, author.
- Series:
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- Relations.
- British Americans.
- Southwest, Old--Colonization--History.
- Southwest, Old.
- British Americans--Southwest, Old--History.
- Southwest, Old--Relations--Spain.
- Spain--Relations--Southwest, Old.
- Spain.
- Louisiana--History--To 1803.
- Louisiana.
- Texas--History--To 1846.
- Texas.
- Louisiana--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Texas--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Colonization.
- International relations.
- United States--Old Southwest.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- An enduring community: Anglo-American settlers at colonial Natchez and in the Felicianas, 1774-1810
- Anglo merchants and capital migration in Spanish colonial New Orleans, 1763-1803
- The Gálvez family and Spanish participation in the independence of the United States of America
- Oliver Pollock and George Rogers Clark's service of supply: a case study in financial disaster
- "Her weary pilgrimage": the remarkable Mississippi River adventures of Anne McMeans, 1778-1782
- Oliver Pollock's plantations: an early Anglo landowner on the lower Mississippi, 1769-1824
- "In territories so extensive and fertile": Spanish- and English-speaking peoples in Louisiana before the purchase
- Oliver Pollock and the creation of an American identity in Spanish colonial Louisiana
- Spanish Louisiana land policy: antecedent to the Anglo-American colonization of East Texas, 1769-1821
- Church courts, marriage breakdown, and separation in Spanish Louisiana, west Florida, and Texas, 1763-1836
- Across the Sabine: the Stephen F. Austin family in Spanish and antebellum Louisiana
- Bibliographic essay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781623497415
- 1623497418
- OCLC:
- 1057244172
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