Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief HistoryA brief history of Mexican Americans in Texas. |
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... Cortina War , " led by Juan N. Cortina , a scion of the old Tejano land grantees and a well - known leader in Brownsville . Cortina resented the ways in which the newly arrived Anglos in the lower border misused the judicial structure ...
... Cortina War , " led by Juan N. Cortina , a scion of the old Tejano land grantees and a well - known leader in Brownsville . Cortina resented the ways in which the newly arrived Anglos in the lower border misused the judicial structure ...
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... Cortina disturbance in 1859 , then fought on the side of the Confederacy . Serving in the state legislature between 1879 and 1885 , Benavides sought to be nonpartisan in ethnic matters while he worked to modernize the border region ...
... Cortina disturbance in 1859 , then fought on the side of the Confederacy . Serving in the state legislature between 1879 and 1885 , Benavides sought to be nonpartisan in ethnic matters while he worked to modernize the border region ...
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... Cortina War , ” led by Juan N. Cortina , a scion of the old Tejano land grantees and a well - known leader in Brownsville . Cortina resented the ways in which the newly arrived Anglos in the lower border misused the judicial structure ...
... Cortina War , ” led by Juan N. Cortina , a scion of the old Tejano land grantees and a well - known leader in Brownsville . Cortina resented the ways in which the newly arrived Anglos in the lower border misused the judicial structure ...
Contents
Spain Mexico | 19 |
Life in Anglo Texas 18361880 | 34 |
Latin Americans in the Postwar Era 19451960 | 107 |
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