Castro's Colony: Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865

By Bobby D. Weaver

Book Overview

In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresario... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890962103
• ISBN13: 9780890962107
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"