The Peters Colony of Texas
"This is the best study of one of the largest land grants in Texas history, totallyng 16,000 square miles of North Texas, an area now including some 26 counties and one-fourth of the Texas population.  The volume is a masterpiece of weaving together the threads of an extremely difficult historical puzzle with only the meagerest of source materials.  Herbert Grambrell called it a 'fine example of the use of research tools' and Ray Allen Billington said it 'notonly tells the story of a principal colonizing venture, but uses mass data to reveal the nature of the typical Texas pioneer' in the colony." --John H. Jenkins in Basic Texas Books.