"During the time in which Napoleon in America is set, Texas was part of Mexico. There were two major settlements: San Antonio de Béxar, the administrative center of the province; and La Bahía del Espíritu Santo, an outpost southeast of San Antonio. The entire non-Native-American population of Texas numbered no more than 4,000. In 1823, Stephen F. Austin received permission from the Mexican government to establish a colony in Texas between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers. By 1828, Austin's colony contained about 8,000 inhabitants. In 1831, Austin's widowed cousin, Mary Austin Holley, visited Texas with a view to settling there with her family. She was 47 years old, cultured, well-educated and adventurous. Austin described her as "this very superior woman." (1)
Mary Austin Holley wrote a book about her experience, entitled Texas: Observations, Historical, Geographical and Descriptive, published in 1833.
Many persons, disposed to emigrate to this fair portion of the earth, needed assurance, that the natives do not kill and eat people there, nor always insult and rob them….in this beautiful and fertile country, where the greatest abundance of all valuable and substantial possessions, are the easy and certain reward of industry and perseverance…."
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