Fureign Colonizalitm of Texas, 1820-1835
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According to statistics kept by the methodical Austin, the majority of those who settled in his grants were from Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, or Missouri. Texas could boast immigrants from Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, and even from the New England states. Spain had tried to populate Texas but failed because of lack of resources. Mexico, too, had offered every encouragement possible to Mexicans from the interior to move to the distant frontier province. In the meantime, the relentless wave of American pioneers had reached the Sabine and was thundering against it. With the change in the Mexican colonization law, the vast wilderness of Texas was overrun. Where a scant 4,000 had struggled for survival 15 years before, there were now more than a dozen flourishing towns, and a population of some 30,000.
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