Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) - Tijerina, Andres

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Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) by Tijerina, Andres Format: Hardcover with Dust JacketPublished by Texas A & M Univ Pr, 19 98 Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. In Tejano Empire historian Andrés Tijerina describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, networks of communication, Catholic religion, and a material culture well adapted to the conditions of the region. After the introduction's historical overview of the region, the chapters address specific elements of the lives people led in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas: work ways and tools, housing and ranch layouts, family networks and authority patterns, education and the arts, religion and daily prayer. A gallery of energetic line drawings by the late Ricardo M. Beasley and graceful pen-and-ink detail drawings by Servando G. Hinojosa of Alice, Texas, commissioned especially for this book, intricately portray scenes from South Texas daily life. Show more