LOVE THE HEAT?Come to Texas:)
By: Kalea Casteel
Reasons to come to Texas:
Cheap land:
If you want to come to Texas one reason a person would come here is because of all the cheap land that is here.
If you come with your family you can gather up a lot of land plus if you are married and have kids you earn more acres.
Usually if you are married and you are a male you can get over 100 acres of land for your animals or whatever you have.
Gold:
A second reason to come to Texas is to search for gold or maybe where you bought your land acres at you can dig for some.
Gold:
One of the reasons to come to Texas.
Map of texas.
Land Grants:
Reason number 2 to come to Texas.
Want to buy some?
http://www.mappery.com/map-of/Texas-Land-Grants-and-Political-Divisions-1821-1836-Map
Supplies to survive:
Some supplies you will neeed to survive is water, food (like you can hunt for deer and other animals that live in the woods),Or if you are a farmer you can grow crops. You also need a shelter, because it is all barren land out there so you need to build a house or buy a house in a town.
Also a line of work would help you survive such as, a farrier, blacksmith, a cowboy to herd cattle, a shopkeeper, or even a farmer or rancher.
Water source:
Usually settlers would settle near rivers, streams, or ponds for their water source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Nith
Food source:
The farmers and ranchers are the ones that make the food by growing them like, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce and more.
Employment:
This is just on e of the jobs that settler can be skilled in and earn money for care of their family.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/blacksmith-the-smith-mike-savad.html
Routes you can take to Texas:
Some routes you can take are:
The Santa Fe trail (picture below)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Trail
"Old Southwest trail" St. Louis to Texas
Old San Antonio Road- map of numerous routes throughout South Texas to Mexico and Arizona.
How much land did you say?
The amount of land you can get if you come to Texas is one league which is equal to 4,428.4 acres for grazing and one league for labor, farming, which is 177.1 acres.
The maximum was 11 leagues 48,712 acres
Info. on Texas:
These are 7 tribes of the 25 that are native to Texas-
Apache who were raiders and enemies of the Comanche
Caddo were farmers
Comanche were also raiders
Jumano were traders
Kawakawa were coastal fishermen
Kiowa were from the plains
Wichita were farmers and hunters
Physical Features: Barren land, ranching land, hills, mountains, coastal areas, plateau, farm land and escarpments.
The Mexicans were native to Texas, but once Texas fought for their independence and won the Mexicans were not welcome in Texas towns.