| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3 | The History Cooperative

*Land!: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas*. By Graham Davis. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xii + 304 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Between 1829 and 1834, some two hundred Irish emigrants settled on two South Texas land grants: San Patricio, established by empresarios John McMullen and James McGloin, and Refugio, founded by James Hewetson and James Power. Until now, the story of this migration has been told only in piecemeal fashion.	1
The book's introductory chapter, which is a survey of conditions in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s, and its fourth and fifth chapters, respectively entitled "The Irish and the Texas Revolution" and "The Life of Pioneer Settlers in Texas," cover ground well-worn by scholars of frontier Texas. At times, the Irish virtually drop from sight, as in a five-page account of the 1836 Goliad Massacre.	. . .

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