Tag Archives: Tejanos

Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734 – 1900

A month ago I bought the book by Armando C. Alonso titled “Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734 – 1900”. I bought it in an effort to understand how the way of life for my wife’s family might have had been. Her paternal side of the family can be found arriving in South Texas in the early…

The First Texas Independence, 1813

How much do you know about Texas? This book will provide you with a chapter of Texas history that is not thought in schools. You will learn about the struggles of the first Tejanos to seek independence for themselves and their posterity. I found out about this book when I received an email form it’s author. He did not ask…

WAC-18: Tejanos in the American Civil War

Play Podcast: http://traffic.libsyn.com/moisesgarza/WAC-018.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSS Summary: Wilson P. Bourgeois provides a great presentation of Tejanos involvement in the American Civil War, specially South Texas Tejanos. Moises talks about the book 246 Testamentos de Monterrey, Lists of Pasajeros a Indias, and the baptism of Margarita Gutierrez, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,…

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