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RV 14 concentrate in considerable numbers after 1852, and a private census in 1869 shows the presence, in that city, of 3,252 persons of Czech nationality. Chicago sees its first Czechs in 1852–53, and many of them commence occupying farmlands in Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, and later in the Dakotas.

According to the census of 1910, persons of Czech parentage in this country numbered 539,392. But it should be remembered, and this applies in an incomparably larger measure to previous statistics, that prior to 1918 there was no independent Czechoslovak nation, and that unavoidably many Czechs and Slovaks appear in the records as Austrians and Hungarians.

The bulk of the Czech stock is in the West. A relatively small number of Czechoslovak immigrants remain in the East. The twelfth census showed 71,389 Czech individuals of the first generation, and 32,707 of the second generation, engaged in gainful occupations, so-called, and of the first generation 32 per cent, and of the second generation 43 per cent, were devoted to agricultural pursuits.

Czech immigration, therefore, was to a large extent of an agricultural character. The farmers of this origin concentrate in Texas, Wisconsin,