Search Results: Titles starting with G from Duane's Books of Texas

118 pages

246 pages with 3 maps in pocket in verso of back cover.

42 pages with 19 pages of artists frameable line drawings of historical buildings in Gonzales.

152 pages.

240 pages

436 pages.

An illustrated history of the Texas Farm Bureau.

32 pages. INTRODUCTION From a few fishermen, sailors, and adventurers during the latter nineteenth century, Texas's flourishing Greek communities grew. The 1860 census showed only two Greeks in the state. A century later, there were an estimated ten thousand, mainly in Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Antonio. The major immigration to T exas came in the three decades following 1890, as it did to the rest of the United States. By 1910, it was estimated that one tenth of Greece's population had already come to America. A failure of cash crops during the 1890's, economic depression, overpopulation, unstable government, wars, and social pressures of the dowry system were some of the reasons. The Greeks of Asia Minor left their homes in the face of political, social, and economic discrimination. By 1922, large colonies in Turkey were expelled as a result of war. and many of these people sought new homes in America. Possessors of a proud and ancient heritage of civilization, religion, and culture,… Read More