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Tadeo Ortiz, Mexican colonizer and reformer /

Biography of Simón Tadeo Ortiz de Ayala, Mexican colonizer and writer who fought for Mexican independence from Spain and for secure borders with the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Timmons, Wilbert H.
Corporate Author: James H. Sutton Jr. and Sylvia Leal Carvajal Collection
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [El Paso] : Texas Western Press, [1974]
Series:Southwestern studies (El Paso, Tex.) ; monograph no. 43.
Subjects:
Ortiz, Tadeo, > 1788-1833.
Table of Contents:
  • The young revolutionary
  • Ortiz' resumen
  • The problem of Texas
  • Tehuantepec
  • Surveying the Isthmus
  • Colonizing the Coatzacoalcos
  • The French empresarios
  • The failure of the project
  • Anglo-American Texas
  • Ortiz' ideas about Texas
  • The need for action
  • Ortiz and his Mexico
  • Political principles
  • Education and welfare
  • His view of the arts and sciences
  • His humanitarian views
  • Economic policies
  • The national capital
  • Ortiz and Texas
  • His last assignment
  • Death of Ortiz
  • An appraisal.