ESTABLISHING AUSTIN'S COLONY. The First Book Printed in Texas, With the Laws, Orders and Contracts of Colonization.
Austin and New York: The Pemberton Press, Jenkins Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Reprint, 1970. A Near Fine book in a Good + dust jacket. 8vo., 91 pp., bound in publishers rust cloth with illustrated rust dust jacket, $8.50. Jacket spine is faded, tips & edges are rubbed. Previous owners name inside front cover, otherwise text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Near Fine / Good +. Item #36294
Stephen Fuller Austin was an American-born empresario. Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States to the Tejas region of Mexico in 1825.
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