Creating the Character of North Texas: Demographics and Geography, 1841-1861
Description:
Several historians have identified North Texas as constituting a unique cultural region in antebellum Texas, due to the more limited cotton and slave economies and greater opposition to secession. Different settlement patterns have been put forward as an explanation for the distinct "character" of North Texas, with North Texas being portrayed as being settled largely by migrants from the Upper South while the rest of the state was primarily settled by Lower Southerners. The argument rests on th…
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Date:
December 2019
Creator:
Stites, Russell
Partner:
UNT Libraries