Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
Description:
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively…
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Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Partner:
UNT Libraries