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 …

Photograph of Moore Home, Candlelight tour. Taken as publicity shot for Saburbia newspaper. Photograph was taken from the center sidewalk that leads to the front entrance. Balcony rail has garland across the length of it. Tall tree on left of photograph. Photograph has large blank area at top and is tilted to right on paper.

Photograph of Moore Home, Candlelight tour. Taken as publicity shot for Saburbia newspaper. The photograph was taken from the lawn near the northwest corner of the house. Tree branches (oak) in top right corner. Another partial view of tree on left of photograph. Photograph has ragged edges on left. Image dimensions are: 10.9 cm X 16.5 cm. Large white area at top.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual semi-monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

A series of obituaries in the Texas Medical Association's June 1988 Texas Medicine journal. Those listed in the obituaries included Dr. May Owen, Dr. William Frank Renfrow, Dr. Louis Reed Robey, Dr. Hampton C. Robinson, Dr. Lowell Edison Rutledge, Dr. Cassie Elizabeth Stuermer, Dr. Robert W. B. Terrell, Dr. Robert H. Thomason, and Dr. Leopoldo Villareal.

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000