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Tejano Legacy - Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900 (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Tejano Legacy - Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900 (Paperback, 1st ed)
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This is a pathbreaking study of Tejano ranchers and settlers in the
Lower Rio 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.
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