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The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
This booklet contains advertisement for the Rio Grande Valley that highlights the various commercial, agricultural, and recreational prospects available. It chronicles the impact of the railroad's arrival and how it stimulated progress in areas such as irrigation, fishing, hunting, beaches, lodging, cities, residences, farming, and crops like cotton. Additionally, it touches on the importance of religion and high-quality education, and the expansion of the railroad network to enhance accessibility.
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The Texas delta of an American Nile: Orchards and gardens replace thorny jungle in the southmost tip of the Lone Star State / Rio Grande Cornucopia Under a Winter Sun
McFall Kerbey, B. Anthony Stewart, and National Geographic Magazine
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Yearbook of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1961
Mabel Collier Eppright and Gladys Collier Hooper
A Welcome from the Governor of Texas / Price Daniel -- "The Valley-A Metropolitan Area," / Jack H. Drake -- Highlights of 1960-Facts, Figures and Events -- Letters to the Editors -- Did You Know? Unusual Facts in the Valley -- "Agriculture," / Stanley B. Crockett -- "Marrs Early Orange," / Mabel C. Eppright -- Agriculture-Citrus, Vegetables, Cotton -- Let's Go to Mexico -- Fascinating Phases of Valley Life -- "Valley Variety," / Bill Watts -- "Cotton," / W. R. Cowley -- "Cotton's Problems in a Changing Agricultural Economy," / R. D. Lewis.
