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Texas: Observations, Historical, Geographical And Descriptive, In A Series Of Letters; Written During A Visit To Austin'S Colony With A View To Perman

Texas: Observations, Historical, Geographical And Descriptive, In A Series Of Letters; Written During A Visit To Austin'S Colony With A View To Perman

Austin Holley, Mary

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral United StatesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354509606
ISBN13: 9789354509605
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1831, Texas was not yet a state, but a proposition: fertile, disputed, and fiercely compelling. Texas is still being made. Mary Austin Holley records her journey as an epistolary travel narrative, a sequence of historical nonfiction letters written during a visit to Austin Colony with an eye to permanent settlement. Moving between river bottoms and prairie, towns and cabins, she weighs promise against hardship, mapping Texas frontier geography with a sharp observer's ear for daily life, resources, routes, and reputation. Read as antebellum Texas travel, these letters capture Mexican Texas 1830s realities and the mood of an unsettled borderland, where policy, land, and ambition meet. The result is both a readable narrative and a grounded Texas history reference, valued by anyone tracing early communities, migration patterns, and names for Texas genealogy research. Holley's account stands among the earliest sustained portraits of the region for Anglophone readers, and it remains vital to early Texas history, old Southwest travel writing, and western expansion primary sources. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today, a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Presented as a complete unabridged edition, it suits the curious browser as much as the classic-literature collector who wants firsthand testimony, not retrospective myth.

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