Lower Rio Grande Valley Curated Material
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Summary discharge or mustering out of regiments or companies. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, together with several documents, including a letter of General Nettleton, and memoranda as to precedents for the summary discharge or mustering out of regiments or companies
United States. War Dept.
House and Senate Documents: Brownsville affray, report of Secretary of War, and additional testimony [enclosed with 5252 S.doc.402/1; copy of 5078 S.doc.155]
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The Lure of the Rio Grande
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce
An early (ca1930) silent film production heralding the attractions of life in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. This production served the purpose of attracting potential investors and boosting the local economy in Brownsville, Texas and the Lower Rio Grande Valley. "Foreword: Like Ponce de Leon and La Sale of old, like Jason and the Golden Fleece - ,mankind still takes the trail to find the Rainbow's End and the land of the ideal. (...) now, thousands of winter-weary northerners and Chicagoans in particular, are (...) to the new mecca of the southland, the extreme southern tip of the United States where Uncle Sam meets Mexico - the Valley of the Rio Grande. "
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![The True Story of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Where Crops Never Fail [booklet] by Jay M. Jackson](https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/lrgv/1029/thumbnail.jpg "The True Story of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Where Crops Never Fail [booklet] by Jay M. Jackson")
The True Story of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Where Crops Never Fail [booklet]
Jay M. Jackson
Promotional booklet compiled by Jackson Vreeland Land Company to encourage Americans to acquire land in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The booklet provides information on climate, agriculture, and regional amenities, and also features letters written by previous and current investors.
The author writes, "The of this booklet is to set forth the true conditions and facts existing in the Lower Rio Grande district--a district that is now attracting a larger immigration and is being settled more rapidly by the people of the North, including people from northern and central Texas, than any other district on the American continent..."