[PDF] The Immigrants Guide To Waco And Mclennan County Texas eBook

Author : Waco Immigration Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780260491763

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Excerpt from The Immigrant's Guide to Waco and McLennan County, Texas This business pays better than almost anything a person can engage in. One may safely calculate to double his money nearly every year if he gives his tune and attention properly to the business. Sheep can be bought front 30 to per head, according to grade. Immense fortunes have been made in this country in the sheep business. A sheep and agricultural association has lately been organized in this county and chartered by the state. The object is to engage in rais ing tine stock, sheep especially. Mr. Ll. E. Jongor, of this city. Is the sup erintendent of the association. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Barbara J. Rozek
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2003-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585442676

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“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 story” to whoever would read it. In this book, Barbara Rozek documents their efforts, shedding light on the importance of their words in peopling the Lone Star State and on the optimism and hopes of the people who sought to draw others. Rozek traces the efforts first of the state government (until 1876) and then of private organizations, agencies, businesses, and individuals to entice people to Texas. The appeals, in whatever form, were to hope—hope for lower infant mortality rates, business and farming opportunities, education, marriage—and they reflected the hopes of those writing. Rozek states clearly that the number of words cannot be proven to be linked directly to the number of immigrants (Texas experienced a population increase of 672 percent between 1860 and 1920), but she demonstrates that understanding the effort is itself important. Using printed materials and private communications held in numerous archives as well as pictures of promotional materials, she shows the energy and enthusiasm with which Texans promoted their native or adopted home as the perfect home for others. Texas is indeed an immigrant state—perhaps by destiny; certainly, Rozek demonstrates, by design.