Early Tejano Ranching In Duval County

Author : Andrés Sáenz
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441631
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Tejano Ranching written by Andrés Sáenz and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two and a half centuries Tejanos have lived and ranched on the land of South Texas, establishing many homesteads and communities. This modest book tells the story of one such family, the Sáenzes, who established Ranchos San José and El Fresnillo. Obtaining land grants from the municipality of Mier in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, these settlers crossed the Wild Horse Desert, known as Desierto Muerto, into present-day Duval County in the 1850s and 1860s. Through the simple, direct telling of his family’s stories, Andrés Sáenz lets readers learn about their homes of piedra (stone) and sillares (large blocks of limestone or sandstone), as well as the jacales (thatched-roof log huts) in which people of more modest means lived. He describes the cattle raising that formed the basis of Texas ranching, the carts used for transporting goods, the ways curanderas treated the sick, the food people ate, and how they cooked it. Marriages and deaths, feasts and droughts, education, and domestic arts are all recreated through the words of this descendent, who recorded the stories handed down through generations. The accounts celebrate a way of life without glamorizing it or distorting the hardships. The many photographs record a picturesque past in fascinating images. Those who seek to understand the ranching and ethnic heritage of Texas will enjoy and profit from Early Tejano Ranching.

Author : Andrés Sáenz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Tejano Ranching in Duval County written by Andrés Sáenz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrés Tijerina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tejano Empire written by Andrés Tijerina and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning volume documents the transfer of land and power that accompanied the cultural exchange between Mexican and Anglo pioneers before the Texas Revolution.

Author : Armando C. Alonzo
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826328504
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tejano Legacy written by Armando C. Alonzo and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pathbreaking study of Tejano ranchers and settlers in the Lower Río Grande Valley from their colonial roots to 1900. The first book to delineate and assess the complexity of Mexican-Anglo interaction in south Texas, it also shows how Tejanos continued to play a leading role in the commercialization of ranching after 1848 and how they maintained a sense of community. Despite shifts in jurisdiction, the tradition of Tejano land holding acted as a stabilizing element and formed an important part of Tejano history and identity. The earliest settlers arrived in the 1730s and established numerous ranchos and six towns along the river. Through a careful study of land and tax records, brands and bills of sale of livestock, wills, population and agricultural censuses, and oral histories, Alonzo shows how Tejanos adapted to change and maintained control of their ranchos through the 1880s, when Anglo encroachment and changing social and economic conditions eroded most of the community's land base.

Author : Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292705227
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas written by Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nearly one hundred photographs from the estate of amateur photographer William Hoffman captures the cosmopolitan town of San Diego at a vibrant moment in its history between 1898 to 1909. Grouped into the categories women at home, homes about town, men at work, children at school and church, families and friends, and entertainment, the photos offer an immediate visual understanding of the cultural and economic life of the community, enhanced by captions that identify the subjects and circumstances of the photos. An introductory historical chapter constitutes the first published history of Duval County, which was one of the most important areas of South Texas in the early twentieth century.

Author : Phyllis McKenzie
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446435
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mexican Texans written by Phyllis McKenzie and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Mexican Texans, discussing their contributions to the Lone Star State, looking at aspects of their culture, and including biographical sketches, illustrations, English translations of Spanish language poems, and traditional recipes.

Author : Joe Stanley Graham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Author : Armando C. Alonzo
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826318978
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Tejano Legacy written by Armando C. Alonzo and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.

Author : Kenneth Wayne Howell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574414496
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still the Arena of Civil War written by Kenneth Wayne Howell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of Reconstruction. Was the Reconstruction era in the Lone Star State simply a continuation of the Civil War? Evidence presented by sixteen contributors in this new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, argues that this indeed was the case. Topics include the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the occ.

Author : Ascencion Garcia Vera
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
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