A description of Texas, its advantages and resources, with some account of their development, past, present and future

Oran Milo Roberts

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IC-NRLF Ml 7MS ORAN M. ROBERTS. A DESCRIPTION OF TEXAS, ITS ADVANTAGES AND RESOURCES, -WITH- SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT, PRESENTPAST, fflD FUTURE. " A taleQ veplain you told, to be writtenVery ?" " A. indeedYes, it -whenis, written." BY O. M. ROBERTS, PRESENT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS. ST. MO.:LOUIS, GILBERT BOOK CO., 1881. in theof 1881,to Act yearCongress,Entered according BOOK Co.GILBERTBY THE atof Washington.of the Librarian Congressthe OfficeIn DEDICATION. isThis little work dedicated to the Texan farrespectfully whose the materialmers, labors, directed,upon rightly pros of Texas must and whoseperity largely depend, intelligence and in affairs must be relied on to sustainintegrity public in this on the that the;good government country principle civilization of localcapable republican, self-government begins and ends with the plow. THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. AUSTIN, 1881.TEXAS, August loth, :To THE PUBLISHER You me to write some reminiscences as apersonalrequest to the workor introduction which arepreface you publishing for me. to me as more than anNothing appears being appropriate of how it that a small a lawexplanation happened I, farmer, and a most of the a residence oftime,yer judge, during nearly in should have collected the materials forforty years Texas, such a while inwork, busily engaged my ordinary puigguits.

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• Texas

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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IC-NRLF
Ml 7MSORAN M. ROBERTS.A DESCRIPTION OF TEXAS,
ITS ADVANTAGES AND RESOURCES,
-WITH-
SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT,
PRESENTPAST, fflD FUTURE.
" A taleQ veplain you told,
to be writtenVery ?"
"
A. indeedYes, it -whenis, written."
BY
O. M. ROBERTS,
PRESENT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.
ST. MO.:LOUIS,
GILBERT BOOK CO.,
1881.in theof 1881,to Act yearCongress,Entered according
BOOK Co.GILBERTBY THE
atof Washington.of the Librarian Congressthe OfficeInDEDICATION.
isThis little work dedicated to the Texan farrespectfully
whose the materialmers, labors, directed,upon rightly pros
of Texas must and whoseperity largely depend, intelligence
and in affairs must be relied on to sustainintegrity public
in this on the that the;good government country principle
civilization of localcapable republican, self-government begins
and ends with the plow.
THE AUTHOR.