Land!
Subtitle: Irish pioneers in Mexican and revolutionary Texas
By: Graham Davis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ;; no. 92
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
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.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The only successful European empresarios in mid-nineteenth-century Mexican Texas - men authorized to bring immigrants to settle the vast spaces of Mexico's northern territories - were Irish. On their land grants, Irish settlers founded Refugio and San Patricio and went on to take active roles in the economic and political development of Texas.

It required a hardy spirit and strong ambition to weather the perils that accompanied these opportunities - the long journey, shipwrecks, hostile Indians, injury and disease - and Irish pioneers proved fit for the task. They were not seeking relief from famine or English oppression in their own country. These were vigorous, strong-willed people who possessed the monetary means to remove themselves from their insular surroundings. What they were seeking, and what they obtained, was land."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: The province of Texas in newly independent Mexico; title: The context of emigration: prefamine Ireland; title: Irish recruitment and the settlements of San Patricio and Refugio; title: The Irish and the Texas Revolution, 1835-36; title: The life of pioneer settlers in Texas; title: Ranching culture and the Texas cattle king: Thomas O'Connor of Refugio County.