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... Mexico would cede to Texas "the piece of territory from River Nueces to River del Norte" in return... arrangement, but without relinquishing any territory west of the Nueces. The reckless federalist Antonio... detachment at Casa Blanca, on the west side of the Nueces, threatening "to throw [him] out" if he did
..., An American-Mexican Frontier: Nueces County, Texas (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1934); Richard L. Nostrand, "The
..., Barbara Callan: 68 Nolan County: bibliography of, 213 Nona, Francis: 39-40, 41 Noriega, F. M. Diaz.... See also literature, Texas Nowlin, William H.: 68 Nueces River: as proposed boundary of Texas, 324... published, 356 Orange County: French ancestry of population in, 408 Oregon: U.S. acquistion of, 147, 149
... Southwestern Historical Quarterly nities in return for the cession of land between the Nueces
... for mustangs lay along the upper reaches of the Nueces River, and South Texas had its "wild horse desert." Hogs
... Southwestern Historical Quarterly railroad-trade centers. Manning, in Angelino County..., Jasper County, had been abandoned by 1933, after having been a logging center with a peak population... of 1,500 in 1918. Best, in Reagan County, was established during the boom days of the Big Lake Oil Field... persons in 195o, and 25 in 198o. Similarly, Crossett, in Upton County, saw its boom period in 1926, when..., Gusher, established in Hardin County in 1903, had a boom population of 4,000 for two years
..., to join the Bosque settlement. Swedish immigration, derived very largely from the county of Jonkoping... efforts of S. M. Swenson, a native of the county who had come to Texas in the 1830s.64 Headquartered... where the Danes live," in Wharton County.65 This settlement is noteworthy for the success of its farmers... by Piemontese at Montague and by Sicilians in the Brazos Valley. Thurber, a coal-mining town in Erath County..., had a notable Italian concentration. Utopian liberals from France founded La R6union in Dallas County
... of major cities abound in Texas. Walker County, within commuting distance of Houston, is the site of Sam... because of its lakes. Upshur County, within commuting distance of the Longview-Marshall-Kilgore-Tyler... western promontory. Williamson County, near Austin, is a refuge for school-busing dissidents. Other... examples include Bandera County near San Antonio, Caldwell County, near Austin and San Marcos, Fannin... County, near Sherman-Denison and Dallas-Fort Worth, and Irion County, near San Angelo. Between 1980
... L Harrison County, Texas, I8So-s88o How do communities change? What is the impact and longterm..., and economic institutions? Randolph B. Campbell examines one southern community- Harrison County, Texas-to... an outline of the events of the Civil War as they affected the county and particular individuals... in the county, followed by a summary of the course of presidential Reconstruction, congressional Reconstruction..., and the resurgence of conservative power in Texas and the county. Finally, he draws a picture of the 188o county
... Randolph B. Campbell A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY IN CRISIS Hair RANDOLPH B. CAMPLL vison County, Texas.... Campbell examines one southern community- Harrison County, Texas-to learn an answer to these questions... of the Civil War as they affected the county and particular individuals in the county, followed by a summary... power in Texas and the county. Finally, he draws a picture of the 188o county and analyzes the changes
..., and Wharton-housed more Hispanics than blacks by 1980.26 Denton County, in North Texas, provides a good example... County in 1887, contrasted with 905 blacks; and by 1930 the Mexican total had risen to 254, still less... on farms and ranches in the county. Many Anglo cemeteries in rural Denton County contain a few, spatially... counts revealed only 242 such persons in the county in 1950 and 885 in 1960. Beginning in the 1960s... Hispanics surpassed blacks to become the largest Denton County minority. The 1980 census enumerated 6,286
... townships that exhibit symptoms of either stagnation or decline. Smithville, a Bastrop County railroad depot... a few hundred people within this range. Similarly, Olney, in Young County, had a population of 4,138... in 1930 and 4,060 in 1980; Dublin, in Erath County, recorded 2,551 in 191o and 2,723 in 1980. Other... townships exhibit decline, such as West University Place, in Harris County, established in 1917... to 12,o010o in 1980. Similarly, Big Spring, an oil and trade depot in Howard County, saw its 1960 population
... where the Wends live," became the mother colony in the sandy-oak forests of Lee County in the middle... 185os, and Wends later spread out to dominate the greater part of the county and to establish daughter... in the Americas. The oldest Polish colony in the United States, Panna Maria in Karnes County, was founded in 1854... Slavic colony was established by a small group of Lutheran Slovaks at Pakan in Wheeler County... of Bosque County.63 The earliest immi- 6 The best source on Wends remains George E. Engerrand, The So-Called
... County.'4 Forty years later, Illini remained twice as numerous as natives of any other midwestern state... of rural midwestern influence, as is suggested by town names like Buckeye in Matagorda County, Bloomington... in Victoria County, Iowa Colony in Brazoria County, and Ohio in Cameron County.6 If the enlarged old-stock
... Museum of History, the Harris County Historical Society, the Houston Metropolitan Research Center..., and the Harris County Heritage Society, initiated a lecture series at noon at the downtown Houston Public Library... Conservation Society, and the Bexar County Historical Commission to provide lecture series on Texas. This past... spring the series was offered in Tyler in cooperation with the Smith County Historical Society
... GROUP, BY COUNTY, 1887 O 50 100 MILES 0 50 100 KILOMETERS TGJ Figure 4 At the golden jubilee...], 1-249. Adjustments were made for missing data for Encinal County and for flawed data for Gillespie... County on the basis of manuscript population schedules of the 188o U.S. census and the published 1890 U.S
... negotiations in, 151; J. Hamilton in (1850), 178 Washington County: German immigrants in, 409 Washington Daily... Webb County: Hispanic population of (1880-1930), 398 Webb Historical Society, Walter P.: as TSHA... Texas, 188 Wharton County: black/Hispanic population of, 399, 402; Danish immigrants in, 413 Wheat..., John: article by, 7-34 Wheeler County: Slavic immigrants in, 412 Whig party: election campaign of, 139... Williamson, Robert McAlpin: on Mexico's abolitionist intentions, 187 Williamson County: Swedish immigrants in
... and part of another company from Corsicana and Navarro County that fought in the Army of Northern Virginia...'s famous Texas Brigade, the Navarro County soldiers saw much action and suffered great casualties... interested in Texas and Confederate history in general, and Navarro County history in particular, would do
...: and treaty on American debts to Great Britain, 267 Jefferson County: French ancestry of population, 408... Jones, Randall: 430 Jones, Thomas A.: captures port of Monterrey, California, 337 Jones County..., 330 Karnes County: Polish immigrants in, 412 Karnig, Albert K.: article by, noted, 561 Karotkins, Jane...: 68 Kasper, Jean W.: 69 Kaufman County: Norwegian immigrants in, 412 Keever, Jack: 68 Kell, Patricia... and Eliza: 348 Kendall, Amos: 146 Kendall County: German immigrants in, 409 Kennedy, John F.: 114 Kennedy
... Figure 3 In each county, persons claiming full or partial ancestry from the group indicated were... character of their plurality is misleading. Loving County had precisely the same numbers of Irish
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