Title: Land!
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Frontier and pioneer life, Land settlement, Businessmen, Pioneers, Biography, History, Frontier and pioneer life, texas, Texas, history, revolution, 1835-1836
Places: Texas, Refugio County (Tex.), San Patricio County (Tex.)
Time periods: 19th century, Revolution, 1835-1836, To 1846
LC classification: F395.I6 D38 2002