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Margaret F. Hammond
A careful chronicler of Texas history, this coauthor helped preserve the story of La Réunion, a 19th-century French utopian settlement near Dallas. Her best-known work brings together local history, social ideals, and the human drama of an ambitious colony that left a lasting mark on the region.
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La Réunion, a French Settlement in Texas
by William Jackson Hammond, Margaret F. Hammond
About the author
Margaret F. Hammond is known for coauthoring La Réunion, a French Settlement in Texas with William J. Hammond. The book was published in Dallas by Royal Publishing Company, and the Project Gutenberg edition identifies her as Margaret F. Hammond, M.A.
Her work focuses on the history of La Réunion, the Fourierist colony founded by French settlers in Texas in the 1850s. Through that subject, she helped document a fascinating chapter of Texas history shaped by immigration, reform movements, and the dream of building a new kind of community.
Little biographical information about her was confirmed in the sources reviewed for this overview, so the surviving record here is centered mainly on her published work rather than on her personal life. Even so, that book remains a useful and memorable contribution for readers interested in Texas, utopian experiments, and overlooked historical communities.