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To the vast and beautiful land : Anglo migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s-1820s
- Title
- To the vast and beautiful land : Anglo migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s-1820s / Light Townsend Cummins.
- Author
- Cummins, Light Townsend
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 266 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; number forty-seven
- Uniform Title
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 47.
- Subjects
- British Americans
- Texas
- Louisiana
- Spain
- History
- British Americans > Southwest, Old > History
- Texas > Emigration and immigration > History
- To 1846
- Louisiana > History > To 1803
- Southwest, Old > Relations > Spain
- United States > Southwest, Old
- Spain > Relations > Southwest, Old
- Southwest, Old > Colonization > History
- Emigration and immigration
- Louisiana > Emigration and immigration > History
- International relations
- Colonization
- Texas > History > To 1846
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4658
- ISBN
- 9781623497415
- 1623497418
- LCCN
- 2018046041
- OCLC
- 1057244172
- Author
- Cummins, Light Townsend, author.
- Title
- To the vast and beautiful land : Anglo migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s-1820s / Light Townsend Cummins.
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; number forty-sevenElma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 47.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1846
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4658