Texans expanded livestock cultivation and established small working farms. In addition to new plantations, the early System, essentially using the new land in Texas to extend the agricultural who settled and introduced a slave-based cotton-plantation Newly independent Mexico offered land grants to anyone interested inĬultivating its large and sparsely inhabited northern region. The first Anglo settlers were drawn to Texas by the promise of abundant land. So many Americans who moved westward across the continent in the 19th century, But the impact of Spanish settlers was limited because most of the state was still dominated by Comanche and Apache tribes, which contained the Spanish foothold in Texas.
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Mission settlements were not merely ways to spread Spanish political influence and the Spanish Catholic faith into Texas they also brought new ideas about how to cultivate crops and raise livestock, including the introduction of irrigation ditches. The Spanish introduced livestock - particularly cattle, sheep, goats, and hogs. The arrival of Spanish settlers and missions began to change the way Texas’ inhabitants interacted with the land. Indians in East Texas, for example, lived in villages and cultivated corn, Were a few agriculturally based societies of indigenous Texans. Hunters and gatherers - nomadic tribes who lived off the abundant herds of wildīuffalo or foraged for game and wild edible plants, fruits, and berries. BeforeĮuropean settlers, most of the peoples who lived in what we now call Texas were Geography is vast and rugged, its climate severe and unpredictable. Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives Precolonial
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