| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

Texas Roots: Agriculture and Rural Life Before the Civil War. By C. Allen Jones. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $19.95 paper.)

Texas Roots is a veritable encyclopedia of Texas agricultural history before the Civil War. It is detailed, thorough, and crammed with information on farming and stock raising. Divided chronologically into two parts called "Los Tejanos" (the Spanish-Mexican period) and "The Texians" (the early American period), the book not unexpectedly covers such familiar topics as early ranching on Spanish mission lands and along the San Antonio River, cotton growing, and plantation slavery. But also it treats such less familiar topics as corn and wheat production and agriculture-related crime.

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