"... in Early Anglo-American Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXIX, 287–
299, shows that many of the immigrants came to Texas because of their health.
Studies dealing with colonizers, their settlers, and their lands include Walter
Struve, Germans and Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of
the Lone Star Republic (Austin, 1996); Rudolph L. Biesele, The History of the
German Settlements in Texas, 1831–1861 (Au ..."