Texas Irish Empresarios And Their Colonies. Power & Hewetson. Mcmullen & Mcgloin. Refugio --- San Patricio

WILLIAM H. OBERSTE

Publication: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co, 1953, Austin

First edition. 8vo. Three hundred numbered copies were printed and signed by the author of which this is copy number 297. Green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, xii, 310 pp., plus 12 pages of an abstract of the original titles, frontispiece, acknowledgments, illustrated, maps, index. Contains four folded maps.

BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 156: “This is the best account of the early Irish settlements in Texas…The settlements were made as a result of colonization contracts made in the 1820s by the Mexican government….Oberste also provides a fine narrative of the role of the Irish in the Texas Revolution and the Texas Republic.” An important contribution to the history of Texas’ early colonization.

Light evidence of a small bookplate removed from the front pastedown sheet, small letters "SS1" at base of spine else a bright near fine copy.