The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to partner with the Collin County Historical Society to make Seymour V. Connor's "The Peters Colony of Texas" available once again. This classic work of Texas history, long out of print, was praised by John H. Jenkins in "Basic Texas Books" as "the best study of one of the largest land grants in Texas history." The TSHA first published "The Peters Colony of Texas" in 1959. The Peters Colony, totaling 16,000 square miles of North Texas, now includes twenty-six counties. Jenkins called it "a masterpiece of weaving together the threads of an...
The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to partner with the Collin County Historical Society to make Seymour V. Connor's "The Peters Colony ...