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Condizione: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Covers have light scratching and rubbing, clean copy. Stapled wraps.

loose_leaf. Condizione: Very Good. Yale Collection of Western Americana, 1981. In very good condition. Reproduction of a single sheet real estate promotion from the late 1860's to early 1870's produced by Geo. W. Smith & Co., general real estate agents, Houston, Texas. One of 400 unnumbered copies reprinted at Christmas, 1981, for friends of the Yale Collection of Western Americana. [From back side] From Moses Austin to modern corporations, Texas has attracted Northerners, Easterners and Southerners seeking a second chance or a promising investment. In 1869 an unusual group of Union and Confederate veterans joined to promote the region in language which sounds familiar today. George W. Smith was appointed an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court in 1866. Although military authorities removed him as an impediment to reconstruction, Smith's company obtained the endorsements of a variety of Radical Reconstructionists and former Confederate sympathizers. A native Floridian, E.J. Davis grew up in Texas. Denied election to the state's Secession Convention, he joined the Union Army. Elected Governor in 1869, he oversaw radical reconstruction in the state. Among his political allies was William T Clark. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Clark served in Texas during the Civil War as a Brevet Brigadier General in the Iowa Regiment. Afterwards he opened a bank in Galveston and organized local blacks. Elected to Congress in 1869, he was known as "a notorious carpetbagger." That real estate promotions overcame partisan politics in the 19th century as effectively as they do today is reflected in the support of T.W. House. The father of Col. Edward House, T.W. moved to Texas from England in the late 1830s. He became one of Houston's leading bankers, merchants and promoters. A Confederate supplier during the war, he never allowed politics to interfere with the development of Houston. Judge William Alexander was born in Kentucky and moved to Texas in 1846 after completing Yale Law School. He served as the state's Attorney General from 1865 till he resigned in 1867 and from 1870 through 1873.At a time when Sun Belt promotions of a different sort have drawn new immigrants to Houston, 400 copies of the Smith Company's announcement have been reprinted at Christmas, 1981 for friends of the Yale Collection of Western Americana.