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Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
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 insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Junior Historian, Volume 26, Number 3, December 1965
Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date:
December 1965
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1959
Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 31, 1959
Creator:
Luecke, Frank M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 7, 1911
Creator:
Cooke, John Esten
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1957
Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 5, 1957
Creator:
Luecke, Frank M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1963
Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 12, 1963
Creator:
Luecke, Frank M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1899
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 14, 1899
Creator:
Ferguson, W. M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1928
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 6, 1928
Creator:
Cooke, John Esten
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1934
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 20, 1934
Creator:
Cooke, John Esten
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1956
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 13, 1956
Creator:
Cooke, W. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1957
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 5, 1957
Creator:
Cooke, W. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1935
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 26, 1935
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 21, 1944
Creator:
White, Jefferson B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan
Water plan for Region G (Brazos) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water supply plans for each county and city, recommended water management strategies, drought response plans, and the plan creation process.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Brazos G Water Planning Group
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History