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- Title
A Failed Venture in the Nueces Strip: Misconceptions and Mismanagement of the Beales Rio Grande Colony, 1832–1836.
- Authors
Carpenter, Kyle B.
- Abstract
The article focuses on failed venture in the nueces strip and mismanagement of Beales Rio Grande Colony and shows how the importance of leadership, geography, relations with neighboring American Indian groups. It mentions personal narratives and legal documents reveal that Beales's colony failed because of its isolation, mismanagement, and the colonists' inability to make lasting relationships or build diplomatic ties with local people.
- Subjects
RIO Grande (Colo.-Mexico &; Tex.); EYEWITNESS accounts; LEGAL documents; COLONISTS; NATIVE Americans
- Publication
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2020, Vol 123, Issue 4, p420
- ISSN
0038-478X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/swh.2020.0025