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 extremely 
difficult historical puzzle with only the meagerest of source 
materials."
   
    For many years the book, with its documentation of early 
migration to Texas, was available to the public only in 
noncirculating library collections and an occasional appearance on 
the rare book market.

    The TSHA and the Collin County Historical Society are pleased 
to offer a paperback edition of The Peters Colony of Texas to 
bring this significant work of Texas history back to public attention.

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SEYMOUR V. CONNOR (1923–2001), Texas historian, was 
the founding director of the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech 
University in Lubbock.