Perilous voyages

"Authors Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann take readers beyond the bare facts to the human stories of immigration from the point of view of English and Czech immigrants. These tales provide fascinating counterpoints to each other and to the glowing claims about Texas, such as those made in William Kingsbury's pamphlet, reprinted in its entirety in the first part of this book." "Perilous Voyages combines the original text of Kingsbury's 1877 pamphlet, a private diary kept by an Englishman named William Wright, and oral histories by descendants of Moravian immigrants to give insight into the historical context and rhetoric of Texas immigration. The realities faced by the early settlers stand in sharp relief to Kingsbury's sometimes extravagant claims."--BOOK JACKET.