| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Land!: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas. By Graham Davis. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xii, 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-189-9.)

The ethnic history of early Texas usually features Hispanics, Anglos, Germans, and Indians. Graham Davis demonstrates the importance of Irish immigrants in the Coastal Bend region of Texas, where they settled in the colonies of San Patricio and Refugio in the years 1829–1834. These colonies embodied the Mexican government policy of populating its sparsely settled northeastern frontier to create a buffer zone against possible U.S. aggression and to encourage economic development. Of forty-one empresario agreements over the period 1823–1835 to recruit principally Mexican and European families to settle on the frontier, few even partially succeeded; the few included two Irish partnerships, James Power and James Hewetson (Refugio) and John McMullen and James McGloin (San Patricio).

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