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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 prosperi…
Describes the history of Texan immigration, beginning with the recruitment of new citizens by the state government from 1865 through 1879, and ending with the efforts to encourage immigration by private organizations, agencies, businesses, and individuals from 1879 through 1915.