Castro's Colony

Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865

By: Bobby D. Weaver

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Paperback | 12 April 1985

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184 Pages

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22.23 x 15.24 x 1.27

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In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans - from France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, and England - to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. Bobby D. Weaver describes the empresario system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder. He also examines the pioneers' struggles with frontier life - drought, disease, and Indian attacks.

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"Weaver breaks fresh ground in Castro's Colony. Spicing his work with tidbits from selected Belgian and German newspapers, he makes excellent use of available primary sources in numerous Texas collections as he describes the founding and early development of Henri Castro's colony on the frontier west of San Antonio."

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