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  Additional studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Border birding, a poem / Chip Dameron -- The curse, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- River boundaries of Texas : the Louisiana-Texas borderland and Lower Rio Grande Valley in comparative perspective 1700-1850 / Francis X. Galan -- Testamentos de Reynosa 1770-1820 / Pedro Antonio Campos Rodriguez -- La Guerra de 1847 y la inevitibilidad ‘retorica’ de la derrota / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- The dead man’s bride, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Emmanuel Domenech in the Rio Grande Valley, 1851-1853 / Santiago Escobedo -- Don Juan Jose de Solis, Albert Champion, the border cattle raids, and the birth of the cattle kingdom / Frank Champion Murphy -- Two shots in the dark : the murder of Michael Schodts / Bill Young -- The life and times of Robert Kane : miner, soldier, fireman, barber and family man / Don Clifford -- The ghost car, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Jose Esparza : a worthy son of a worthy father / Milo Kearney & Tony Pineda -- The R.B. Creager and Carlos G. Watson papers come to the Hunter Room / John Hawthorne -- Henry Gordon : a life devoted to law enforcement in Brownsville / Elizandro Munoz Jr. -- An interview with Antonio M. Ramirez / Rolando L. Garza -- Rolando Hinojosa : Tejano writer / Manuel Medrano -- A brief look at the political career of Ygnacio ‘Nacho’ Garza / James W. Mills -- The lady and her daughter in white, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Living with Brownsville’s Resacas / Mimosa Stephenson -- Personajes e instituciones en la salud publica de Matamoros / Rosaura Davila de Cuellar -- Reptile stories and myths along the Lower Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) / Norman L. Richard -- Morality and gender in Reynosa in the 1920s and 1930s / Sonia Hernandez -- Short stories and sound bites from the UTB Hunter Room’s Brownsville Chamber of Commerce files / Robin Robinson -- Sand, sun, set, and match: the story of beach volleyball on South Padre Island / Helmut Langerbein -- A history of the Texas Tropical Trail Heritage Tourism program in the Rio Grande Valley / Kimberlee D. Garza -- The medic, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- The Protestant presence in Cameron Country, Texas: 1850-1870: an examination of census data / J. Steven Rice -- Benedictine education and monasticism in the Rio Grande Valley / Cipriano A. Cardenas -- How reconstruction changed the meaning of red and blue in Brownsville / Lyon Rathbun -- El gobierno municipal de la Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, en 1897 / Andres F. Cuellar -- The Brownsville Historical Association’s first sixty years / Anthony Knopp -- Los dos niños, a folktale / Peter Gawenda -- Remembering the Tandy’s / James W. Mills -- Tell them who you are : honoring pioneer families of el Rio Brave del Norte / Anthony Noe Zavaleta -- Hurricane season, a poem / Chip Dameron.

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  An Overview of the Economy of Port Isabel, Texas

  Baltazar Arispe y Acevedo Jr., Oralia De Los Reyes, Ignacio E. Rodríguez, University of Texas at Brownsville, and Texas Southmost College

  The assessment of a small geographic area, such as the city of Port Isabel, is rather difficult to conduct on a micro scale since most data is generated for the macro area that may include several census tracts and zip codes. This assessment, by the Cross Border Institute for Regional Development [CBIRD] at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College is part of a component of a broader scope of work that is being conducted for the City of Port Isabel by Gomez and Associates. CBIRD will address those items, for which data was available, and will present some insights and observations on the data based on data that it acquired or generated by its field research in the community which included surveys, on-site interviews and interactions with community leaders and members of advisory boards that serve the city. The CBIRD research team will present observations, insights and recommendations that are apolitical and which reflect its assessment of conditions that it observed during the course of its data gathering and analysis.

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  Antonio de Mendoza: First Viceroy of Mexico

  Hubert J. Miller

  As Mexico's first viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza's most noteworthy achievement was his laying the basis of colonial government in New Spain which continued, with modifications, for 300 years. Although he was lenient in dealing with the shortcomings of his Indian and Spanish subjects, he took a firm stand in dealing with the rebellious Indians in the Mixton War and the Cortes faction which threatened the Viceregal rule. His primary concern was to keep New Spain for the crown while protecting the Indians from want and inhumanity. Focusing on the institutions he founded and developed, this booklet provides a study of early Spanish colonial institutions. Although the biographical account is of secondary importance, the description of Hispanic colonial institutions are valuable in presenting the Spaniards' colonization after the conquest. Practical application of the material at both the elementary and secondary levels can be utilized in stimulating student discussions and debates on the merits and demerits of 2 colonial powers--the English and the Spaniards. A brief select bibliography is included to provide additional resources and a list of audiovisual aids which are of a general nature and provide broad vistas of the institutions initiated during Antonio de Mendoza's administration.

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  An updated overview of the Texas border

  Baltazar Arispe y Acevedo Jr., Ignacio E. Rodríguez, Oralia De Los Reyes, University of Texas at Brownsville, and Texas Southmost College

  This report, An Overview of the Texas Border, should be considered part of a longitudinal study. The initial baseline report, The Border: Texas’ Roadway to the 21st Century, was written by J. Michael Patrick and Baldomero Garcia for the Texas Infrastructure Coalition [TBIC] in June 2000. The report was a commissioned study of the Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. The current research effort is also a commissioned study of CBIRD: The Cross Border Institute for Regional Development at The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, Texas.

  TBIC, the sponsor of this study, was organized in 1998 with the expressed mission of addressing the infrastructure needs of the communities along the Texas-Mexico Border. Of primary interest to TBIC is the continued viability and sustainability of the target region to participate fully in the implementation and expansion of NAFTA. This report provides a context to guide the policy, advocacy agenda and strategic plans of TBIC.

  The Patrick/Garcia report ends with data that covers most of the 1990’s. The purpose of this report is to assess data that covers the fiscal years 2000, 2001 and parts of 2002. CBIRD provides a broader overview of the border than Patrick/Garcia and this was done so that a context of the region could provide guidance to TBIC as it considers its policy agendas. Another key consideration by CBIRD was to provide references from the Internet that could be accessed in a timely manner by TBIC to review the data that guide this study.

  The research provides an overview of transportation issues, legislation, governance and fiscal issues that originate with the Texas Department of Transportation which is the state agency that is the focus of TBIC’s policy initiatives at this time. Another point to consider here was the orientation of CBIRD to provide a non-biased framework and policy perspectives to guide rather than lead TBIC in its deliberations of the Texas Border infrastructure. It is the expressed hope of CBIRD that TBIC continue to fund research to extend and continually update the data that both Texas A&M International University and the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College have initiated. The need to access and assess timely research, to guide data based policy planning and strategic planning, will bode well for TBIC as it takes the advocacy role on behalf of its growing constituent base along the 1,254 miles that make up the Texas-Mexico Border region.

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  A study of affordable housing in Brownsville, Texas: Challenges and opportunities

  Baltazar Arispe y Acevedo Jr., Ignacio E. Rodríguez, Oralia De Los Reyes, University of Texas at Brownsville, and Texas Southmost College

  This report on affordable housing in Brownsville is one of the first that has been done on a local level that makes use of primary data that was generated through the use of extensive field based interviews by the research team. This primary data provided the researchers with a reference base to guide its use and analysis based on national findings from major housing research institutes. From such a point the team began to generate an accurate overview of housing in Brownsville. The key findings from this study may also be considered a baseline since no such data was found to exist at the local level as the research design unfolded.

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  Bartolome de Las Casas: Protector of the Indians

  Hubert J. Miller

  Bartolome de las Casas devoted himself completely to crusading for the rights of the Indians. Although he was never a missionary among Indians, he began projects such as the Indians' conversion in the Land of War in Guatemala, which later became the task of his Dominican colleagues. However, his true importance lay in his role as the Indians' protector before the royal court. This was shown by his involvement in the debate of Valladolid, the decree of the New Laws of 1542, and the campaign for the abolition of the encomienda and Indian slavery. However, the significance of his crusade went beyond the rights of Indians; it involved the rights of all men. Equally significant was his strong conviction that the Indians had a right to retain their cultural heritage in the face of the invading Spaniards, who considered themselves culturally superior to the Indians. Intended to provide the teacher with meaningful historical information on the clash of cultures and the rights of man, this booklet relates the story of the Spaniards and Indians as seen in the life of Las Casas. Although primarily intended for use by elementary teachers, the booklet may be profitably used by junior and senior high school teachers. A brief bibliography is included to provide additional information, suggested readings for students, and audiovisual materials.

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  Border walls : a musical about Redbeard of the Rio Grande

  Milo Kearney and Arnulfo L. Oliveira Literary Society Press

  This musical play is a historical account of episodes in the settlement of Brownsville, Texas, back in the early 19th century. Today, we think of Brownsville as a peaceful and uneventful town, but this was not always the case. Life was risky then. There could be a beautiful society wedding on one day, and the next day gun-toting insurgents could shoot up the town. Juan Cortina, “Red Beard,” played a pivotal role in the history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. During the Mexican-American War, he fought the American take-over of the north bank of the Rio Grande, and he spent much of the rest of his life fighting for one cause or another along the border. This is the man and these are the times we now call to our stage.

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  Cameron County/Matamoros at the Crossroads: Assets and Challenges for Accelerated Regional and Binational Development

  David V. Gibson, Pablo Rhi-Perez, Margaret Cotrofeld, Oralia De Los Reyes, Mark Gipson, University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas Southmost College, and University of Texas at Austin

  Study of assets and challenges for knowledge-based economic development in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Includes demographic, economic, and education data for the region, as well as results of a survey of government and business leaders concerning economic development strategy.

  © 2003 by UTB-CBIRD and IC² Institute.

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  Collection of works by faculty and staff - 2005

  University of Texas at Brownsville

  This annual publication provides a listing of books, journals, videocassettes, compact discs, and software produced by various faculty and staff of the former University of Texas at Brownsville.

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  Collection of works by faculty and staff - 2007

  University of Texas at Brownsville

  This annual publication provides a listing of books, journals, videocassettes, compact discs, and software produced by various faculty and staff of the former University of Texas at Brownsville.

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  Collection of works by faculty and staff - 2008

  University of Texas at Brownsville

  This annual publication provides a listing of books, journals, videocassettes, compact discs, and software produced by various faculty and staff of the former University of Texas at Brownsville.

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  Collection of works by faculty and staff - 2009

  University of Texas at Brownsville

  This annual publication provides a listing of books, journals, videocassettes, compact discs, and software produced by various faculty and staff of the former University of Texas at Brownsville.

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  Continuing studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Coming to the Valley, a poem / Vivian Kearney -- The ghosts of historic Palmito Hill Ranch / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- Against the odds : Dr. Juliet V. García, border educator / Manuel F. Medrano -- Lucile Champion's Brownsville : remembrances of another time / Frank Champion Murphy -- The restored courthouse and Judge Oscar Dancy / Anthony Knopp -- Francesco Voltaggio and the Port Isabel shrimp industry / Virginia Voltaggio Wood -- Mario Barrera : a border success story / Milo Kearney -- Selected figures from the Sierra/Valerio family history / Luciano Valerio Sierra and Amy Sierra Frazier -- The Cisneros family in the history of Raymondville / Ruby Cisneros Casteel -- Historia de la Aduana de Matamoros / V.A. Javier Huerta Castañeda -- The interconnected newspapers of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas / John Hawthorne and Jessica Guzmán -- The Brownsville city cemetery / Eugene Fernandez -- Arte y cultura en Matamoros / María Luisa Pacheco -- The last battle of the Mexican American War : the United States of America versus the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- A critique of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley / Terence M. Garrett -- The feminization of political office in Brownsville : the Brownsville City Commission election of 2009 / Gabriela Sosa Zavaleta -- Lost but not found : accommodation in Oscar Casares' Brownsville / Mimosa Stephenson -- Leaving the Valley, a poem / Vivian Kearney.

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  Espacios, Poblamiento y Conflicto en el Noreste Mexicano y Texas [People, Places and Conflicts in Northeastern Mexico and Texas]

  Ruth Arboleyda, John B. Hawthorne, Gerardo Lara Cisneros, and Gustavo A. Ramirez Castilla

  1. Areas de actividad y contextos en el Noreste Mexicano: caracterización de sitios de recolectores - cazadores mediante el uso de la Tipología Espacial / Gustavo A. Ramirez Castilla -- 2. Ubicación espacial de sitios arqueológicos en el municipio de Dr. Gonzalez Nuevo Leon / Efrain Flores Lopez -- 3. Sedentarismo en las adaptaciones de los cazadores y recolectores del bajo Rio Bravo / Martin Salinas -- 4. Permanencia de grupos cazadores - recolectores en respuesta a condiciones topográficas y naturales / Iran Roxana Dominguez Rodriguez -- 5. Un campamento-taller a la orilla del río Salado / Victor Hugo Valdovinos Perez y Iran Roxana Dominguez Rodriguez -- 6. Consideraciones sobre la arqueología de Reynosa, Tamaulipas / Carlos Vanueth Perez Silva -- 7. Tatuajes en las rocas: El lenguaje rupestre Chiquihuitillos en la region de Burgos, Tamaulipas / Diana Radillo Rolon -- 8. "Líneas de horizonte" un locatipo del arte rupestre de Nuevo Leon / Manuel Graniel Tellez. Segunda parte - Poblamiento y resistencia = Parte II - People and resistance: 9. Indian responses to New Santander colonizing process / Gerardo Lara Cisneros and Fernando Olvera Charles -- 10. La redención de cautivos en el septentrión novohispano en la postrimería del siglo XVIII / Limonar Soto Salazar -- 11. Pames y otras etnias en Rioverde, Santiago de los Valles y Nuevo Santander, siglos XVII - XVIII / Jose Alfredo Rangel Silva -- 12. El poblamiento de la frontera de la Nueva Galicia: Mazapil, siglo XVI / Juana Elizabeth Salas Hernandez -- 13. El poblamiento entre Texas y Louisiana, durante las Reformas Borbonicas / Luis Arnal Simon -- 14. Uso y función de los bienes materiales de las misiones franciscanas: San Juan Bautista y San Bernardo en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII / Diana Ramiro Esteban -- 15. El Rio Bravo y la conformación de la frontera entre Texas y el noreste mexicano entre 1824 y 1848 / Antonio Guerrero Aguilar -- 16. Los trabajos científicos de la Comisión de Limites en Tamaulipas y Texas, febrero - mayo 1828 / Erika Adan Morales -- 17. La propiedad rural en el sur de Saltillo, siglos XVI al XX. Las haciendas de Buenavista, El Nogal y Santa Elena de la Punta / Juana Gabriela Roman Jaquez -- 18. "Diles quien eres." Honrando a las familias pioneras del Rio Bravo del Norte / Antonio Noe Zavaleta Reid y Câesar A. Munoz Garcâia -- 19. Las redes sociales en la migraciâon indígena al Noreste de Mexico / Carlos Lemus y Ana Maria Châavez. Tercera parte - Conflicto y adaptaciâon = Parte III - Adaptation and conflict: 20. Spanish plans for the reconquest of Mexico and the invasion of Tampico (1829) / Catherine Andrews y Leticia Dunay Garcâia Martâinez -- 21. Repercusiones del asentamiento colonial en el valle de la Mota evidencia material de trapiches / Araceli Rivera Estrada y Tehua Osnaya Rodriguez -- 22. Freedom's eagle loudly calls: the misinterpretation of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma / D. Clark Wernecke -- 23. La transformación del espacio y arqueología de la Batalla de la Angostura / Carlos Recio Davila -- 24. Revealing the ephemeral: finding traces of 18 critical minutes and their aftermath at San Jacinto / Roger Moore -- 25. Batalla de Monterrey en el Fortin de la Teneria (1846): hallazgos arqueológicos de las fuerzas en combate / Araceli Rivera Estrada -- 26. Con un pie en cada lado: ethnicities and the archaeology of Nuevo Santander rancho communities in South Texas and Northeastern Mexico / Mary Jo Galindo -- 27. Washington, La Habana y Matamoros: los vertices del triangulo transitorio de pertrechos para los constitucionalistas, 1913-1914 / Indra Labardini Fragoso. Cuarta parte - Sociedad e ideas = Parte IV - Ideas and society: 28. La presencia liberal en el periódico El Tulteco / Thelma Camacho Morfin -- 29. El taumaturgo de Espinazo. Breve historia de Jose Fidencio de Jesus Constantino Sintora, mejor conocido como el Nino Fidencio, 1898-1938 / Jose Oscar Avila Juarez -- 30. Gendering the making of a borderlands: women's work in the garment industry / Sonia Hernandez -- 31. From conflict to consensus: Fort Brown becomes the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College / John B. Hawthorne. Fuentes de information = Sources of information: A. Siglas, abreviaturas, acrónimos y signos -- B. Repositorios documentales consultados -- C. Fuentes documentales -- D. Fuentes primarias publicadas -- E. Reportes arqueologicos de campo -- F. Fuentes bibliográficas secundarias -- G. Fuentes hemerográficas -- H. Fuentes electrónicas.

  TRANSLATIONS: 1. Activity areas and contexts in the Mexican Northeast: characterization of gatherer-hunter sites using the Space Typology / Gustavo A. Ramirez Castilla - 2. Spatial location of archaeological sites in the municipality of Dr. Gonzalez Nuevo Leon / Efrain Flores Lopez - 3. Sedentarism in the adaptations of hunters and gatherers of the lower Rio Bravo / Martin Salinas - 4. Permanence of hunter-gatherer groups in response to topographic and natural conditions / Iran Roxana Dominguez Rodriguez - 5. A camp-workshop on the banks of the Salado river / Victor Hugo Valdovinos Perez and Iran Roxana Dominguez Rodriguez - 6. Considerations on the archeology of Reynosa, Tamaulipas / Carlos Vanueth Perez Silva - 7. Tattoos on the rocks: The rock language Chiguihuitillos in the Burgos region, Tamaulipas / Diana Radillo Rolon - 8. "Lineas de horizonte" a locale of rock art from Nuevo Leon / Manuel Graniel Tellez. Second part - Population and resistance = Part II - People and resistance: 9. Indian responses to New Santander colonizing process / Gerardo Lara Cisneros and Fernando Olvera Charles - 10. The redemption of captives in the northern part of New Spain in the late eighteenth century / Limonar Soto Salazar - 11. Pames and other ethnic groups in Rioverde, Santiago de los Valles and Nuevo Santander, XVII - XVIII centuries / Jose Alfredo Rangel Silva -- 12. The settlement of the border of Nueva Galicia: Mazapil, sixteenth century / Juana Elizabeth Salas Hernandez - 13. The settlement between Texas and Louisiana, during the Bourbon Reforms / Luis Arnal Simon - 14. Use and function of the material assets of the Franciscan missions: San Juan Bautista and San Bernardo in the second half of the 18th century / Diana Ramiro Esteban - 15. The Rio Grande and the formation of the border between Texas and Northeast Mexico between 1824 and 1848 / Antonio Guerrero Aguilar -- 16. The scientific work of the Boundary Commission in Tamaulipas and Texas, February - May 1828 / Erika Adan Morales - 17. Rural property in southern Saltillo, 16th to 20th centuries. The estates of Buenavista, El Nogal and Santa Elena de la Punta / Juana Gabriela Roman Jaquez - 18. "Tell them who you are." Honoring the pioneering families of the Rio Bravo del Norte / Antonio Noe Zavaleta Reid and Câesar A. Munoz Garcia - 19. Social networks in indigenous migration to Northeast Mexico / Carlos Lemus and Ana Marâia Chavez. Third part - Conflict and adaptation = Part III - Adaptation and conflict: 20. Spanish plans for the reconquest of Mexico and the invasion of Tampico (1829) / Catherine Andrews and Leticia Dunay Garcâia Martâinez - 21. Impact of the colonial settlement on the valley de la Mota material evidence of sugar mills / Araceli Rivera Estrada and Tehua Osnaya Rodriguez - 22. Freedom's eagle loudly calls: the misinterpretation of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma / D. Clark Wernecke - 23. The transformation of space and archeology of the Battle of Angostura / Carlos Recio Davila - 24. Revealing the ephemeral: finding traces of 18 critical minutes and their aftermath at San Jacinto / Roger Moore - 25. Battle of Monterrey in Fortin de la Teneria (1846): findings Archaeologists of the forces in combat / Araceli Rivera Estrada -- 26. With one foot on each side: ethnicities and the archeology of Nuevo Santander rancho communities in South Texas and Northeastern Mexico / Mary Jo Galindo - 27. Washington, Havana and Matamoros: the vertices of the transitory triangle of supplies for constitutionalists, 1913-1914 / Indra Labardini Fragoso. Fourth part - Society and ideas = Part IV - Ideas and society: 28. The liberal presence in the newspaper El Tulteco / Thelma Camacho Morfin - 29. The thaumaturge of Espinazo. Brief history of Jose Fidencio de Jesus Constantino Sintora, better known as El Nino Fidencio, 1898-1938 / Jose Oscar Avila Juarez - 30. Gendering the making of a borderlands: women's work in the garment industry / Sonia Hernandez - 31. From conflict to consensus: Fort Brown becomes the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College / John B. Hawthorne. Sources of information = Sources of information: A. Acronyms, abbreviations, acronyms and signs - B. Consulted documentary repositories - C. Documentary sources - D. Primary published sources - E. Field archaeological reports - F. Sources secondary bibliographic - G. Hemerographic sources - H. Electronic sources.

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  Extra studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight

  Vaqueros del Valle, a poem / Manuel Medrano -- Matamoros and the Tejanos of Victoria and Goliad in the Texas Revolution: conflicting loyalties and ‘Assiduous Collaborators’ / Craig H. Roell -- Antonio Canales Rosillo / James Mills -- The origins of Salome Balli McAllen / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Sally Skull: the legend / Sondra Shands -- The Kawahata Family comes to the Valley / Randall Sakai – The Battle of Reynosa / Jesus Ramos -- Los días siguientes a la toma de Matamoros por los Constitucionalistas / Andres Cuellar -- H-E-B: an American and Valley success story / Norman Rozeff -- Algunas revistas culturales de Matamoros de 1940 a 1951 / Rosaura Alicia Davila -- Valerio Longoria: for a quarter a song / Manuel Medrano -- Hometown hero: technical Sergeant Noe R. Gonzales, B-17 flying fortress radio operator / Noe E. Perez -- Hidalgo County jury duty, 1954-1960 / Rene Rios -- Little steps by giants: a story of two minority groups working together for racial equality in Edinburg, Texas / Marissa Marmolejo and Thomas De La Cruz -- Timeless chaos: Hurricane Beulah’s march through the Lower Rio Grande Valley, September 1967 / Fernando Ortiz Jr. -- This one is for the masses: a (re)telling of South Texas and its people / Topacio Santivañez -- Migrant children and safe houses in the Tamaulipas-Texas border region / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez -- The inception of the idea of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley / Peter Gawenda -- Ephemeral Valley unity and the legislative creation of UTRGV / Anthony Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp -- The newest university in the 21st Century: the challenges of creating UT-RGV / Michael L. Faubion -- Attitudes toward immigration policy partisanship and ethnorace: a view from La Frontera / Jessica Lavariega Monforti and Adam McGlynn -- Interview with Patricia Cisneros Young about South Texas tales: stories my father told me / Mimosa Stephenson -- The transmigration of popular religion: praxis and renewal of syncretic faith across the U.S.-Texas frontier / Antonio Noe Zavaleta -- Creating the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail / Roseann Bacha-Garza, Christopher L. Miller, and Russell K. Skowronek -- “Raspa man” a poem / Manuel Medrano -- Contributors

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  Fresh studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight

  Jim Wells, George Parr, Pepe Martin, and Gene Falcón: the spirit of ‘’El Patrón’’ along the Rio Grande of South Texas / Billy Hathorn -- The other underground railroad / Rolando Avila -- Frank Ellis Ferree, humanitarian / Norman Rozeff -- Chip Dameron's Rio Grande Valley: center of a narrowing universe / Ronny Noor -- Historia de la education superior en la ciudad de H. Matamoros, Tamaulipas / Miguel Sesis Botti y Maria Elena Flores Montalvo -- The quest for a public library for Brownsville / Anthony K. Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp -- Las Palomas Wildlife management area: a hidden natural jewel of the Rio Grande Valley / Noe E. Perez -- La Beulah: remembering the eye of the storm / Manuel F. Medrano -- Migracion en Matamoros: un laboratorio de la complejidad migratoria en la frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos / Cirila Quintero Ramirez -- Coyotes en acción: relatos de traficantes de migrantes en Reynosa / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez -- Border Walls, DREAMers and Trump: politics, policy and banality of evil / Terence M. Garrett and Paul J. Pope -- The social, political, and environmental forces contributing to the immigration crisis at the Texas-Mexico border / Mitchell A. Kaplan -- Las violencias sociales y la imparticion de la justicia en Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- U.S.-Mexico border spillover violence 2010-2019 / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- La fiebre polca, a poem / Susana Nevarez Marquez.

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  Further studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Salt: basis of wealth in South Texas / David J. Mycue -- The Zavaleta Family : a legacy of public service / Antonio N. Zavaleta and James E. Zavaleta with Theresa Zavaleta -- Carnaval y fiestas Mexicanas de Matamoros / Rosaura Alicia Davila -- A history of the development of Brazos Santiago Pass / Carl Chilton -- El Retraso español y su interés final por la colonización del Bajo Bravo / Arturo Zarate Ruiz - Fugitive slaves and free Blacks in South Texas / Alberto Rodriguez -- reporting from the Rio Grande : how the press saw the Brownsville area before, during, and after the Civil War / Bill Young -- The international entanglements at the Battles of Palmito Ranch / Lyon Rathbun -- The secret mission of Lew Wallace / Sondra Shands -- The legacy of the Texas Rangers on the Texas-Mexico border in light of the emergence of the Texas Minutemen / Joseph E. Chance and Milo Kearney -- The Brownsville Herald and the changing views of local German Americans and Mexican Americans during World War 1 / Gerhard Grytz -- Promoting Valley tourism in the 1920s : a case of competition and ambivalence / Robin Robinson -- Conflicto del Municipio con la Compania de Luz y Fuerza / Andres F. Cuellar -- A history of the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce / James A. Keillor -- Adios Harlingen A.F.B.! : a look at a community's response to the closing of Harlingen Air Force Base, 1962-1970 / Thomas Britten -- Coping with obstacles to development in the Rio Grande Valley : competitive issues in Brownsville and Matamoros / Anthony Knopp -- a brief history of the architecture of Port Isabel and the Laguna Madre area / Edward P. Meza -- The muse of art in the Brownsville Region / Milo Kearney and Carlos G. Gomez -- Street names of Brownsville / Mimosa Stephenson -- From terror in Eastern Europe to Southern Texas : Holocaust survivors in Brownsville / Helmut Langerbein -- Marshall C. Nichols, manager of the Charro Drive-in, 1950-1961 / Milo and Vivian Kearney -- A memoire of the Brownsville Alliance Francaise / Milo and Vivian Kearney -- Tombside tales / Chula T. Griffin -- Culture pioneers of the Valley : Narciso Martinez and Americo Paredes / Manuel Medrano -- Filemon B. Vela : justice on the border / Roman R. Perez -- Yolanda Gonzalez Zuniga : una mujer de acción / Elia Garcia Cruz.

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  Hernan Cortes: Conquistador and Colonizer

  Hubert J. Miller

  The conquest and colonization of Mexico initiated by Hernan Cortes resulted in the fusion of the Indian and Hispanic cultures. This fusion led to the "mestizo" culture. Cortes was the bearer of the Hispanic heritage just as the Aztecs and other Indians in Mexico and the Southwest were the carriers of the Indian heritage. In studying the life of Cortes, he is seen not only as a military conqueror but also as a colonizer in which role he left a more lasting legacy than he did as the victor over the Aztec Empire. This booklet focuses on Cortes' colonizing efforts. In narrating the story, the teacher can stress the religious motivation of Cortes, the building of towns and cities, the introduction of Spanish political and economic institutions, agricultural products, mining and the Spanish language. At the same time the conqueror regarded the Indian as a Spanish citizen, whose civilization had much to offer to enrich what the Spaniard brought. Intended as a teaching tool, the booklet is intended primarily for elementary teachers. However, it can also be profitably used by junior and senior high school teachers. A brief select bibliography is included to provide additional sources which go into greater detail. Added to the bibliography are sources geared to the elementary and secondary levels and audio-visual aid materials.

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  Juan de Zumarraga: First Bishop of Mexico

  Hubert J. Miller

  The decades of the 1530's and 1540's witnessed the founding of Hispanic colonial institutions, many of which with modifications continue today. Among the most lasting of these has been the Church. This is part of Juan de Zumarraga's (Mexico's first archbishop) legacy, not only the setting up of ecclesiastical administration but also the prelate's ministry among his people. Zumarraga's concerns were many and varied. Concern for the Indians' spiritual and material well-being prompted Zumarraga to establish schools and hospitals, introduce the first printing press, and collect a library. Equally significant and less known is his role of introducing and promoting European culture in early colonial Mexico. Spain and Portugal were a century ahead of other European colonial powers in bringing Western Christian civilization to the New World. Throughout the 1600's much of the present day United States Atlantic seaboard was a wilderness when compared to the developing cultural life in Central Mexico. This booklet's purpose is to provide the essential historical information for this head start through the study of the life of Zumarraga. Although its primary intent is as a teaching tool for elementary teachers, it can be profitable on the secondary level. A brief bibliography is included to provide the teacher with additional information and a listing of audiovisual materials.

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  Kraigher house by Richard Neutra, Brownsville, Texas

  University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

  In 2005, The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College entered into an agreement with the city of Brownsville to restore the nearby, endangered Kraigher House, a gem designed by renowned architect Richard Neutra.

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  Memories of Fort Brown and Other Select Interviews: An Oral History Project

  James Mills

  Chula Griffin / by Sarai Salinas -- Ruben Edelstein / by Ricardo Cantu -- Alicia Putegnat / by Ashley Garcia -- Frank Maldonado / by Samantha Davila -- William Abraham King / by Samantha Davila -- Walter Rathjen / by Eddie Garcia -- Sara "Sarita" Walker / by Alisha Janiga -- Clara Zepeda / by Diego Leal -- Ruben Garcia / by Alex Gutierrez -- Oscar Henslee / by Colt Munoz and Gabriela Gutierrez -- Ray Hughston / by Citlalic Laguna, Brenda Vela, Maria Gomez, and Breanna Rodriguez -- Leon Van Holsbeke / by Jessica Wareham -- Jim Pace / by David Silva and Oziel Gamboa -- Katie C. Maranitch / by Maria Jose Ramirez -- Joe I. Trevino / by Alexandra Mora -- Eduardo Ramos / by Gabriela Gutierrez -- Harry Sexton / by Ramio Cantu -- Norma Lobaugh / by Anthony Munoz -- Henry Kenneson, Jr. / by Victoria Lopez -- Pat Pace / by Laura Garcia -- Larry Herrera / by by Maria Gomez and Myrell Mortalla -- Robert Gann / by Laura Garcia -- Agnes and Frances Browne / Sergio Hernandez, Paul Rios, and James Mills -- Dr. Rudy Valle / by Alexandra Mora, Nelly Estrada, and Oziel Gamboa -- Evangeline Henggeler / by Oziel Gamboa -- Amelia Champion / by Jaime Guajardo -- Irma Solitaira / by Citlalic Laguna.

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  Mexican-American Spanish in its societal and cultural contexts

  The University of Texas-Pan American at Brownsville. Rio Grande series in language and linguistics

  Natural and Literary Spanish Discourse / Rosaura Sanchez -- Teacher and student language behavior in contrasting bilingual contexts / M. Beatriz Arias -- An ethnography of a fourth-grade bilingual classroom: Patterns of English and Spanish / Sheila M. Shannon -- The sociolinguistics status of a U.S.-Mexico border Calo / Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia -- Research needs in Chicano Spanish for health care / Margarita Kay -- Mental health services: Language and acculturation with Mexican-American populations / Sandra L. Johansson, Harmon Hosch, Antonio Juarez, Larry Meyer -- Domain-related lexical borrowing in the English and Spanish of South Texas / George K. Green, Lino Garcia Jr. -- Restandardization of Spanish in the Hispanic press / Sally E. Said -- Folk process in Chicano poetry / Theresa Melendez Hayes -- Linguistic insecurity in New Mexico: A pilot study / Shaw Nicholas Gynan -- Sociocultural contexts of Texas Spanish: Personal encounters / Chester C. Christian Jr. -- Perceptions of Spanish-English code-switching in Juarez, Mexico / Margarita Hidalgo -- Decisions of correctness in New Mexico Spanish / Merryl Kravitz -- Language use and perceived discrimination: The case of Spanish speakers at UNM / John J. Bergen, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry -- The processual role of language in Bilingual classrooms: Language use and mass media orientations among Mexican American children / Adalberto Aguirre Jr. -- Translation: The forgotten fifth language skill / George K. Green -- Communication and education trends along the U.S.-Mexico border / Dennis J. Bixler-Marquez -- Native language education: The key to English literacy skills / L. Antonio Gonzalez -- Contributors.

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  More studies in Brownsville history

  Milo Kearney

  Resacas and bancos in Brownsville history / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- An American “melting pot” in the Coahuiltecan homeland / Roberto Mario Salmon -- De la Garzas, Ballis, and the political history of the region that would later become Cameron County / Milo Kearney -- The corridos of Mexico and South Texas: modern variations on Medieval themes / George K. Green -- O todo o nada / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- Asi paga el diablo / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- Point Isabel and the Mexican War / A.A. Champion and Henry G. Krausse, jr -- An historic hail to the chief / Alan Hollander -- Papers and personalities of frontier journalism (1830’s to 1890’s) / A.A. Champion (with Mary Champion Henggler, Consuelo Champion, and Vivian Kearney) -- The Miller hotel in the Antebellum period / A.A. Champion -- La comadre muerte / Manuel F. Rodriguez -- The Texas-Mexico border, 1858-1867, along the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the decade of the American Civil War and the French intervention in Mexico / Barry M. Cohen -- The impact of the Civil War on the Rio Grande / David Johnson -- Brownsville and the blockade / Charles M. Robinson III -- John Warren Hunter : the fall of Brownsville, 1863 / edited and introduced by Roberto Mario Salmon -- Bagdad : ‘Lost City’ of the Rio Grande / Allan Hollander -- El belga / Manuel F. Rodriguez -- Brownsville City Cemetery / Robert B. Vezzetti -- The palm grove - Rabb Plantation / Ruby Woolridge -- The ongoing saga of the ‘Rio Bravo’ / Allan Hollander -- History of the Esperanza ranch: a significant site, Brownsville, Texas / Raymond W. Neck -- Faith and saints in Mexican- American folklore religion / Mark Glazer -- The Fort Brown ghosts and other phantasm / Allan Hollander -- Lawlessness in Cameron County and the city of Brownsville : 1900 to 1912 / William V. Wilkenson -- Las playas Washington y Boca Chica / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- Golden years of the rail / Alan Hollander -- The murder of Joe Crixell / Ralph Schmeling -- The plan of San Diego and the Lower Rio Grande Valley / Jake Watts -- The Olmito train and the universal struggle / Mimosa Stephenson and Olive Rathjen -- Saludo presidencial / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- The encounter / Peter Gawenda -- Los dados / Peter B. Gawenda -- A tribute to Sam Perl, 1898-1980 / Harriet Denise Joseph -- El chubasco del ’33 / Manuel F. Medrano -- Cameron County’s public schools in 1935 / Peter B. Gawenda -- The founding of Charro Days / Ruby A. Wooldridge and Robert B. Vezzetti -- Snake king of the Rio Grande / Allan Hollander -- The populist revolt of M.M. Vicars / Anthony K. Knopp -- Las ferias en Matamoros en 1962 / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- Winning political office in Cameron County, 1876-1988: the Mexican-American case / Norman Binder and Frank J. Garcia -- Aprendiz de brujo / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda.

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  More studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Matamoros' love song to Brownsville : a poem / Milo Kearney -- Con un pie en cada lado : origins of El Rancho San Lorenzo de las Minas / Mary Jo Galindo -- The rise of banking in Matamoros and Brownsville / Louis Benavides -- The daily Brownsville ranchero / Norman C. Delaney -- Maximilian's bed in Brownsville / Don Clifford -- The U.S. consulate in Matamoros and instability in Matamoros and Brownsville in 1870 / César García -- The Lightbournes of the Point Isabel lighthouse / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- Movie theaters for Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1910-1940 / Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr. -- A Brownsville boy goes to war : Joe Coulter in the submarine service in World War II / Bill Young -- Women as political pioneers in the Rio Grande Valley / Gabriela Sosa Zavaleta -- Re-discovering the Rio Grande Valley : the Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program and life-long education / Russell K. Skowronek ... [et al.] -- French immigration in the Lower Rio Grande Valley / Olivier Schouteden -- Jewish families of old Brownsville / Norman Rozeff -- John Samuel Cross : race and opportunity on the border / Anthony Keith Knopp -- Los tamales y la migración en Matamoros, Tamaulipas / Arturo Zárate Ruiz -- The life and times of Raúl E. "Don Barbacoa" and Consuelo Cisneros and their barrio store in Raymondville / Ruby Cisneros Casteel -- Transgenerational language loss at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College / Therese Gallegos -- The comic mode of Oscar Casares' Amigoland / Mimosa Stephenson -- Three interlinked generations of native Brownsville Chicano writers / Lyon Rathbun -- Patricia Cisneros Young : one of our own / Ronny Noor -- Brownsville's love song to Matamoros : a poem / Milo Kearney.

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  New studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight

  Spanglish, a poem / Mario Barrera -- Place identity formation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: the identity of Brownsville / Elim Zavala -- The complexity of land custody in 19th century deep South Texas / Eugene Fernandez -- Not in Kansas anymore: selling midwesterners the 'Magic Valley' of South Texas / Craig H. Roell with Ruth May Euler Roell -- Alexander Headley, public servant or scoundrel? / Norman Rozeff -- Rebels at the Rio Grande: naval actions on the international border in 1863 / Walter E. Wilson -- Matamoros en la época de la constitución de 1917 / Rosaura Alicia Davila -- Padre Island impression, a poem / Ralph Martin -- Cesar Chavez's Pan American College campus visit and its aftermath / Rolando Avila -- Brownsville's Ruben M. Torres in the midst of the Texas prison crisis / Noe E. Perez -- Eva Ybarra: siempre la reina / Manuel Medrano -- The recent history and unification of historical societies in Brownsville / Alma Ortiz Knopp and Anthony Knopp -- A history and bibliography of articles published in the UTB-UTRGV Studies in Local History series / Milo Kearney -- Dreamers, a poem / Manuel Fernandez Guzman Jimenez -- Viajes peligrosos: el tránsito de menores migrantes mexicanos por la frontera / Oscar Misael Hernandez - Hernandez -- Immigrant caging on the Texas-Mexico border / Antonio Noe Zavaleta and Mitchell A. Kaplan -- City of ghosts, a poem / Mario Barrera.

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  Ongoing studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Chupacabras, a poem / Milo Kearney -- The Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies / Antonio Zavaleta with help from others -- History Through World War I : Comparative freedom in the borderlands: fugitive slaves in Texas and Mexico from the age of enlightenment through the U.S. Civil War / Francis X. Galan and Joseph Leon -- Contraband trade in Matamoros and its impact on the northern Mexican economy during the 1820s / Melisa Galvan -- Preparando los festejos para la inauguración del Ferrocarril a Monterrey / Andres F. Cuellar -- Adolf F. Dittman and Brownsville's first motion picture theaters / Javier R. Garcia -- History Between the World Wars : The Ku Klux Klan in the Rio Grande Valley / Norman Rozeff -- Deadly ambush in Willacy County (1926 style) / Bill Young -- Historias sobre las fajitas y sobre su Salto de Bajo Bravo a la fama / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- Memories of Fort Brown: a look at the economic and social relationship between Fort Brown and the surrounding community through primary accounts of the 1930s to 1944 / James W. Mills -- Twentieth Century History Since World War II : Patrones cambiantes de migracion en las ciudades fronterizas de Tamaulipas: las experiencias de Matamoros y Reynosa / Cirila Quintero Ramirez -- I am a Mexican-American raised in Mexico : a case study of cross-border migration from 1900 to 2008 / Robert H. Angell -- Vida social de Matamoros en la epoca del algodon (1940-1960) / Rosaura Alicia Davila -- An observation on the changed role of the Texas Rangers in the Rio Grande Valley / Bruce Casteel -- Contemporary History : Mexican immigrant colonias along the south Texas border in the 1980s and 1990s / James Barrera -- Economic development and planning in Reynosa since 1990 / Victoria A. Hirschberg -- ¿Pa'que le buscas tres pies al gato teniendo cuatro?: teaching local history on the south Texas-Mexico border / Philip Samponaro -- Cucuys, a poem / Milo Kearney.

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  Papers of the Bi-National Conference on the War Between Mexico and the United States

  Douglas A. Murphy, Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.), University of Texas at Brownsville, and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

  Introduction -- Conference Program -- The War With Mexico and the American Republic / Robert Johannsen -- Crossroads to Destiny : The Annexation of Texas and its Consequences / Wesley Allen Riddle -- El peligro de una guerra en dos frentes : el papel de Gran Bretaña en el conficto entre Mexico y los Estados Unidos de 1846-1848 / Lawrence Douglas Taylor -- The 1848 Oregon Debate : Test Case for the Wilmot Proviso and Southern Sectional Unity / John E. Grenier -- Veracruz: A Grand Design - D-Day, 1847 / Paul C. Clark, Jr. and Edward H. Moseley -- Six Silver Bands : Company A , Corps of Engineers in the Mexican War / Stephen R. Riese -- Soldiers in Black : Father John McElroy and Father Anthony Rey in the Mexican-American War / Steven O'Brien -- Bucking and Gagging / Dale R. Steinhauer -- Composed of a Different Material: Democracy, Discipline, and the Mexican War Volunteer / Richard Bruce Winders -- The First Alabama Volunteers: Portrait of a Regiment / Steven R. Butler.

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  Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference

  Anthony K. Knopp, Harriett Denise Joseph, Douglas A. Murphy, and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.)

  Introduction -- Conference Program -- Reconsideraciones sobre la guerra entre México y los Estados Unidos / Josefina Zoraida Vázquez -- La beligerencia mexicana durante la guerra con los Estados Unidos/ Jesús Velasco -Márquez -- James K. Polk and Presidential War Powers: An Unexplored Field of the Constitution / Kathleen O'Kray Peltier -- A Thread of Brittle Texture " : Ann Chase and Manifest Destiny / Shannon L. Baker -- We Shall Beat Them Wherever We Meet Them " : Civil War Officer Perceptions of Mexico; 1846-48 / Christopher S. Stowe -- Encountering the Other: American Soldiers in the Mexican - American War, 1846-48 / Frank F. Koscielski -- War Correspondents on the Rio Grande: The Press and America's First Foreign War / Mitchel Roth -- Women and the Mexican War / Linda Vance -- The Immigrant Soldier in the Regular Army During the Mexican War / Dale R. Steinhauer -- The Regiment of Voltigeurs, U.S.A .: A Case Study of the Mexican - American War / Erik D. France -- Mr. Polk's Generals / Richard Bruce Winders -- "Cerro Gordo Shout": David E. Twiggs and the United States Mexican War / Jeanne T. Heidler & David S. Heidler -- Buena Vista : All Wool and a Mile Wide / Bob Burk -- The New Mexican " Revolt" of 1847 and its Effect on American Jurisprudence, 1850-1912 / Robert J. Torrez -- " Ho! For Yucatan ! " : Los voluntarios norteamericanos después de la guerra con México / Lorena Careaga Viliesid -- Josiah Turner, Juan Cortina, and Carlos Esparza: Veterans of the Mexican War Along the Lower Rio Grande / Carlos Larralde -- The Texas Devils: McNelly's Rangers and the Palo Alto Fight of 1875 / Michael Collins -- Biology of the Palo Alto Battlefield Site: A Summary / Norman L. Richard & Alfred Richardson -- Palo Alto : A Symbol and Sacred Ground / Joseph O'Bell.

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  Pington

  Jim Lemons and Judy Walton

  Former UTB/TSC physical education professor Werner Steinbach invented pington, a racquet sport similar to badminton, in the 1960s. But the sport lacked a textbook until Kinesiology Department (now the Health and Human Performance Department) faculty members Jim Lemons and Judith D. Walton formalized the rules of the game in print. In pington, athletes learn how to play this fast-paced game, which takes place on a badminton court and is played in singles, doubles and mixed doubles with special, locally made paddles. The text explains why pington rallies (played with a higher net than is used in badminton) tend to last longer and why a game of pington provides a better aerobic workout than less demanding racquet sports.

  Former homepage here.

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  Recent studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight

  Story of the Valley, a poem / Chip Dameron -- Dedication / Milo Kearney -- Beales’s Rio Grande Colony and Grant’s Matamoros Expedition: The Amazing Stories of Two British Physicians Who Nearly Altered Mexican Texas / Craig H. Roell -- A Brief Look at Citizen Opportunists in the Matamoros area during the U.S. – Mexico War, 1846-1848 / James W. Mills -- The Mystery of the Texas Blockade Runner ‘Texana’ / Walter E. Wilson -- The National Guard Defends Brownsville and the Valley—1916 / Anthony K. Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp -- John Closner, Operative / Norman Rozeff -- President Robert Paul (‘R. P.’) Ward / Rolando Avila -- How McAllen Became the Economic Center of the Rio Grande Valley / Edward F . Wallace, Jr. -- Brownsville and Matamoros, 1990-2015, the Sequel to Boom and Bust: The Historical Cycles of Matamoros and Brownsville / Milo Kearney and Anthony Knopp -- The Good Samaritans of Escuelita de la Banqueta / Ronny Noor -- Caged Dreams, a poem / Ronny Noor -- A History of Policing the United States–Mexican Border along the Rio Grande and the Southwest / Billy Hathorn -- The Wesmer Drive-In: The Valley’s Last Picture Show / Noe E. Perez -- Mysteries of the El Cielo Biosphere / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- South Texas Reverie, a poem / Chip Dameron.

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  Research issues and problems in United States Spanish : Latin American and southwestern varieties

  The University of Texas-Pan American at Brownsville. Rio Grande series in language and linguistics

  The Future of Spanish in the United States / Gary D. Keller -- Current population survey research and household spanish maintenance among Mexican Americans / Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez -- Chicano communities: The research we still need - Fernando Penalosa -- Implications of research on dialects of Mexican American Spanish for linguistic theory / Benji Wald -- The social and linguistic foundations of Chicano Calo: Trends for future research / Rogelio Reyes -- A review examining research on the impact of bilingual education programs on student achievement / Manuel Medrano -- Future directions for research on speech attitudes / Rosa Fernandez -- Future needs for research on Mexican American phonology and morphosyntax / Eleanor Greet Cotton and John M. Sharp -- Networking: A needed research approach for U.S. Hispanic dialectology / Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia -- Central American varieties, Mexican and Chicano Spanish / John M. Lipski -- Mexican and Chicano Spanish: The unseen connection / Margarita Hidalgo -- Spanish verb usage in El Paso and in Mexico City / Eleanor Greet Cotton and John M. Sharp -- Diffusion of lexical innovations in the Spanish of Cuban Americans / Ricardo Otheguy and Ofelia Garcia -- Calo, pachuco, and lunfardo: Certain homogenous tendencies in vernacular Spanish / George K. Green -- Syntactic trends and patterns: Southwest Spanish in context / Lenard Studerus -- Perception of English vowels by Hispanic children of limited English proficiency / Jorge M. Guitart -- A computer analysis of border Spanish lexicon / J. Halvor Clegg and Robert N. Smead -- Kansas Spanish fertile in syntactic Chicanoisms: A sociolinguistic perspective toward optative Ojala and complementizer use / Gerald L. Denning.

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  Still more studies in Brownsville history

  Milo Kearney

  A historical sketch of Fort Brown / Bruce Aiken -- A brief history of Los Fresnos / James A. Keillor -- Olmito, Texas: a town of unfulfilled dreams / Tim Snyder -- Water as a magic element in the Rio Grande Valley’s history / Brian Robertson -- Brownsville’s sisters of the Incarnate Word / Rosalinda Olivares-Sosa -- Out marriage among Hispanics : Cameron County, 1870-1970 / Randy Davidson -- A history of Brownsville’s Cuban community / Michael Lopez -- A few comments on the history of Blacks in Brownsville / Cornelio Nouel -- The Brownsville Jewish community : from generation to generation / Harriet Denise Joseph -- A historical sketch of Brownsville’s Franco-Americans / Milo and Sean Kearney -- A historical sketch of Brownsville’s German-Americans / Milo and Sean Kearney -- Mr. A. E. Anderson, “The father of Valley archaeology,” and his “Indian Relic Collection” / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- The leather shields / A folktale told by Peter Gawenda -- Comparacion de leyendas de Mexico y la Frontera / Graciela P. Rosenberg -- Los corridos Sudtejanos: nuestra tradicion milenaria / Jorge Green Huie -- Retablos for patron saints’ images / Brian Robertson -- Captain Thomas M. (Mexican) Thompson / Jean L. Epperson -- Antonio Canales and the Republic of the Rio Grande, 1839-1850 / Roberto Mario Salmon -- The Rio Grande Valley and South Texas in handbooks for German immigrants of the 19th Century (What happened to paradise?) / Peter Gawenda -- “The Great Western” : the heroine of Fort Brown in fact and fiction / Joseph E. Chance -- Memorandum book / Victor Egly -- Civil War era letter / Brian Robertson -- The Brownsville protest of January 1866 / Roberto Mario Salmon -- The dishonest servant / a folktale told by Peter Gawenda -- The horse thief / a folktale told by Peter Gawenda -- Brownsville’s first permanent courthouse / Brian Robertson -- Brownsville’s wild west atmosphere in 1894 / Brian Robertson -- The St. Peter motor chapel / Brian Robertson -- Robert Runyon’s historical photographs / Brian Robertson -- The Mexican Revolution and the Bandit Wars : the Lower Rio Grande Valley in 1915 / William V. Wilkinson -- The Bloody Bandit war of 1915 / Chip Dameron -- Dr. Dutro’s recollections of the Bandit era / Brian Robertson -- Dr. McCain and the Smallpox Epidemic of 1915 / Brian Robertson -- Chattering parrots at the 1916 state fair / Brian Robertson -- Cotton and its impact on Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley / Sondra Shands -- World War II vigilance in Brownsville / Brian Robertson -- John Hunter : local patron of learning / Milo Kearney -- Shelby J. Longoria : the entrepreneurial spirit on the Border / Anthony Knopp -- The Santa Elena Ranch Massacre (April 1989) / Vivian Kearney -- The creation of the University of Texas at Brownsville / Milo Kearney -- Demographics of spring breakers require a new approach by South Padre Island businesses / Randall L. Florey and Leigh Ann Hanby -- Tracking international commerce in Brownsville / Chris Clearman -- Christmas on the Rio Grande, a poem / Bob Rose.

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  Still more studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Resaca, a poem / Josie Mixon -- Matamoros before the Texas Revolution : becoming Mexico’s pivitol port city on the northern frontier / Craig H. Roell -- The Great Sequoyah Mystery : a cover-up that stretched from the Cumberland Mountains to the Rio Grande Delta (and into Mexico) / Don Clifford -- Immigration to South Texas, 1850-1900 / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Cattle barons and the creation of an empire : a case study of the expansion of the Kennedy Ranch of South Texas / Elmer Sierra, William Yaworsky, and Amy Frazier -- A history of the Brownsville Police Department in the Nineteenth Century / Noel Otu -- Rio boots / Ruby Cisneros Castell -- El sexenio del general Manuel Avila Camacho en Matamoros, 1940-1946 / Rosaura Davila -- Crecimiento industrial y calidad de vida en Reynosa, Tamaulipas / Cirila Quintero Ramirez -- An experiment assessing attitudes on immigrants and immigration among U.S. college students : a comparison of students in the Rio Grande Valley to those in Northeastern Pennsylvania / Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Adama McGlynn, and Ana Belen Franco -- White pelicans at dawn / Lyon Rathbun -- The sheriffs of Cameron County / Norman Rozeff -- The origin of the Belden Trail / Anthony Knopp -- Mujeres y violencia en la frontera ‘olvidada’ / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrara -- Alienation vs. Community at Portway Baptist Church / Mimosa Stephenson -- Echoes of ancient language in Spanish of South Texas / George Green -- Contrabando por amor : shooting Mexican movies in the Rio Grande Valley / Rogelio Agrasanchez -- A rapid ethnographic assessment of Brownsville-Matamoros concerning the development of a Palo Alto National Historic Battlefield site / Antonio Zavaleta -- Recuerdo cemetery inscriptions and memorial language in Brownsville, Texas / Sheila Dooley -- The geographic distribution of ghost tales in the Rio Grande Valley / Milo Kearney and Ninfa Burgos-Kohler -- Delta lake, a poem / Josie Mixon.

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  Struggle and progress in the history of Pan American University: 1927-1987

  Raymond P. Welch

  This essay chronicles the creation, growth, and expansion of Pan American University.

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  Studies in Brownsville history

  Milo Kearney

  Annotated bibliography of Brownsville history / George Gause -- The Coahuiltecan legacy of South Texas / Roberto M. Salmon and Juanita Elizondo Garza -- Cihuacoatl is alive and well in Brownsville / George K. Green -- The Valley’s first settlers / told by San Juanita Vela de Lozano to Peter Gawenda -- The watermaidens / told by ‘Jefe’ in the Market Square barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- The Indian maidens / told by Felipe Lozano recorded by Peter Gawenda -- Brownsville’s Santanderino strain / Milo Kearney -- Steamboats on the Lower Rio Grande in the 19th century / Robert B. Vezzetti -- The man-eaters / told by Felipe Lozano in his barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- The black cat / told by Josefa Vela de Lozano, recorded by Peter Gawenda -- The three-master / told by John Garreu on Padre Island, written down by Peter Gawenda -- El perro negro / told by Felipe Lozano in his barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- Desertion on the Rio Grande / Jere C. Light -- The bells of Brownsville / Henry G. Krause, Jr. -- The Espiritu Santo grant / Ruby A. Woolridge -- When the Navy was stationed at Fort Brown / Bruce Aiken -- The Twin Cities: a historical synthesis of the socio-economic interdependence of the Brownsville-Matamoros border community / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- The bagpiper / told by Felipe Lozano in his barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- The devil’s rock / told by Father Dan Laning at a first communion in Mission, Texas, in May 1960, written down by Peter Gawenda -- La curandera / told by Felipe Lozano in his barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- The black mare / told by John Garreau on Padre Island, written down by Peter Gawenda -- Brownsville, model city of Texas in 1879 / contributed by Peter Gawenda -- Brownsville’s public schools one century ago (1875-1905) / Peter Gawenda -- The 1891 Rio Grande Railroad robbery / Ruby A. Woolridge -- A brick-throwing ghost / a newspaper story of 1879, noted by Peter Gawenda -- El pasto de la almas / told by Felipe Lozano in his barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- La abuela / told by Felipe Lozano in his barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- The man with the shovel / told by “Jefe” in the Market Square barbershop, written down by Peter Gawenda -- The Brownsville Raid: a historical assessment / Wally Pierce -- Temple Beth-El, 1931-1981 / Harriet Denise Joseph -- What ever happened to the good old days? / Robert S. Lewis -- The family history of Senator Hector Uribe: a study in Mexican-American heritage / Karen E. LeFevre.

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  Studies in Brownsville & Matamoros history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Jose de Escandon and the settlement of South Texas in the late Colonial Era, 1746-1821 / Harriet Denise Joseph -- La poesia de arte menor en la Cronica de Sanchez Garcia / Jorge Green Huie -- The Battle of Palo Alto: a preliminary gathering of primary sources arranged by selected holdings / Thomas B. and Marie J. Carroll -- Francisco Yturria / Lilia Garcia -- The start of Brownsville-Matamoros telephone link / Bruce Aiken -- La presidencia de Don Salvador Cardenas: Enero-Junio de 1920 / Andres F. Cuellar -- Doctor, maestro, periodista, literato Manuel Feliciano Rodriguez Brayda / Elia Garcia Cruz and Jose Luis Lopez -- Algunas mujeres destacadas de Matamoros / Rosaura Davila de Cuellar -- Margaret M. Clark, pioneer in Brownsville physical education: an oral history / Judith D. Walton -- Mexican American empowerment and local organization: the case of Valley interfaith / Jose R. Hinojosa, Norman E. Binder, J. L. Polinard and Robert D. Wrinkle -- The economic impact of the Port of Brownsville / Randall Florey -- Historic architecture in Brownsville and Matamoros / Mark Lund -- Architecture in Brownsville: the 19th Century / Stephen Fox -- A history of literature in Brownsville / Charles F. Dameron, Jr. -- Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes / Norma Garcia Lerma -- Sociedad Tamaulipeca de historia, geografia y estadistica de Matamoros / Amparo Olivares de Huerta and Javier Huerta Castaneda -- The reaper / Peter Gawenda -- The chaperon / Peter Gawenda -- Historia del Instituto Tecnologico de Matamoros / Raul Salinas Gonzalez and Carmen Mijares Fong -- A historical sketch of the Baptist church in Brownsville and Matamoros / Milo Kearney and John Kearney -- The libraries of Brownsville: a historical survey / Daniel L. Nutter -- Estudio en geneologia de Familia Salinas / Yolanda Gonzalez Zuniga -- Familia Pacheco / Maria Luisa Rojas de Pacheco -- Filomeno Garcia vs. Josiah Turner: the case of Soliseñito Banco and the elimination of bancos on the Rio Grande River / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- Teatro de la Reforma / Alfonso Gomez Arguelles.

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  Studies in Matamoros and Cameron County history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  The Pineda plaque / Don Clifford -- El romanticismo Hispanoamericano también floreció aqui / Jorge Green Huie -- La batalla de la Resaca de la Palma / Carlos Rosas -- Los Matamorenses fundan el casino / Andres Cuellar -- The shifting relationship between Harlingen and San Benito in the first three decades of the Twentieth century / Milo Kearney -- Reading Zane Grey in Brownsville / Mimosa Stephenson -- After the boss: Twentieth century political trends of Brownsville city government / Anthony K. Knopp -- Ethnicity and political participation in Cameron and Hidalgo counties: Mexican American voters and nonvoters / J. L. Polinard, Robert D. Winkle, and Norman E. Binder -- Poem: “Karankawas” / Marty Lewis -- E. J. Davis: traitor or idealist? / Sondra Shands with Sherry McCullough -- El General Manuel Gonzalez Flores / Clemente Rendon de la Garza -- Colonel Sam A. Robertson and his house / Henry E. Agar and Margaret E. Brown -- Biografia del General de Division Lauro Villar Ochoa / Gustavo Flores Sanchez -- Don Luis Emigdio Rendon Arias / Elia Garcia Cruz -- Ladislao Cardenas / Maria Luisa Meade -- Don Florentino Cuellar Martinez / Alma Rodriguez -- Jose Rangel Cantu: the conscience of South Texas / Carlos Larralde -- Gene McNair / Nat Flores -- Jim Mills: from West Texas famer to South Texas mayor / James W. Mills, Brent H. Mills, Susan E. Mills -- Frank Yturria: profile of a citizen / Eliana Guerrero Ramos Bennett -- Poem: “Valle Hermoso” / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- De cronistas e historiadores: apuntes para una historia conjunta / Cirila Quintero Ramirez -- Matamoros, cartago de America / Oscar Rivera Saldana -- Historia de la Sautena / Jose M. Karlis -- Colonia Diez y Ocho de Marzo / Nora E. Rios McMillan -- A selected history of fine arts in Brownsville / Nancy Escobedo Churchill -- Hispanic journalism in Brownsville, Texas / Cipriano Cardenas -- The history of the Maquiladora industry in Matamoros / Kathleen E. Owen -- An initial overview of Matamoros’ Nineteenth-Century street names / Thomas B. Carroll -- La ciudad de Matamoros en el Siglo XIX / Jaime Mendoza Martinez -- Instituto literario de San Juan / Jaime Mendoza Martinez -- Architecture in Brownsville: the 20th century / Stephen Fox -- Historic folk sainthood along the Texas-Mexico Border / Joseph Spielberg and Antonio Zavaleta -- Poem: “Playa de Matamoros” / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda.

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  Studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta

  Historia de Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas / por Ernesto Escribano Gómez -- How the teachers of Matamoros formed la Union Tamaulipeca / by Alma Ortiz -- The 1971 "Pharr Riot" / by Ned Wallace -- Memoirs of Brownsville politics / by Loddell Batsell -- Economic changes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas: a bibliographic review / by David J. Mycue -- A short history of land titles in South Texas / by Joseph E. Chance -- The prehistoric peoples of the Rio Grande Delta and their connections with the cultures of Mesoamerica / by Rolando L. Garza -- Peyote: sacred sacrament of the Rio Grande Valley / by Thomas Britten -- Twin cities on a river: a reminiscence and comparison / by Anthony Knopp -- The signs of Brownsville / by Mimosa Stephenson -- Charrería en Matamoros / por Oralia Garcia -- German immigrants in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1850-1920: a demographic overview / by Gerhard Grytz -- A history of the Muslim community in the Rio Grande Valley / by Milo Kearney and Mark Hanson -- From old to new: the alteration, restoration, and preservation of historical Fort Brown buildings of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College / by Javier R. García -- Brownsville and "The Herald" in the 1940s / by Cipriano A. Cárdenas -- Brownsville's Casa Petrina / by Milo Kearney -- Recent Valley literature: the South Texas Mexican set / by René Saldaña, Jr. -- Israel B. Bigelow: from Connecticut to the Rio Grande / by Bill Young -- Menton Murray Sr. and Betty Murray of Harlingen: a legacy of public service / by John Hawthorne -- Mayor and commissioner Henry Gonzalez / by James W. Mills -- Porfirio Díaz in the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the rebellion of Tuxtepec / by John D. Kearney -- Coronel Eleuterio Reyna García: vida de un revolucionario Matamorense / por Miguel Rubiano -- Stephen Powers: master Mason, master citizen / by Douglas Collins -- The Chiltons: eighty years in the Valley / by Carl Chilton, Jr. -- From the inside out: truancy to prison on the streets of Brownsville / by Joe Garcia -- Colored death: the tragedy of black troops on the Lower Rio Grande 1864-1906 / by Antonio N. Zavaleta -- Dr. William C. Gorgas and yellow fever at Fort Brown / by Charles M. Robinson III -- José M. Lopez: un hombre valiente / by Manuel Medrano -- The clay dunes of eastern Cameron County / by Norman L. Richard.

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  Supplementary studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight

  Corrupted, a poem / Tom Emrick -- Primal Matamoros : ancient refuge among the Estuaries of the Rio Bravo / Craig H. Roell -- U.S.-Mexico relations during the establishment of the American Consulate in Matamoros : 1826-1842 / Melisa C. Galvan -- Captain King’s Cotton : the Civil War blockade-running adventures of Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy / Walter E. Wilson -- The sad saga of John V. Singer / Norman Rozeff -- Ulster and the Texas-Mexico Border : John McAllen and his family / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Joseph Kleiber and his letter press book / Anthony K. Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp -- Jose Agustin Quintero y Woodville : Confederate Special Agent / Jim Mills -- The Putegnat Family and J. P. Putegnat’s escape from a Yankee prison / Tara Putegnat -- Putting the pieces together : the rhetoric of oral tradition in the Twentieth-Century Rio Grande Valley / Monica Reyes and Andy Najera -- President Emeritus Miguel A. Nevarez and the transformation of South Texas / Rolando Avila -- The history of Baseball in Brownsville / Manuel Gutierrez -- Reynosa’s Iglesia Evangélica Esmirna and Pentecolism in Latin American / J. Steven Rice -- Spanish-speaking institutions and language assimilation in the Rio Grande Valley / Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Carlos Daniel Gutierrez Mannix -- English/Spanish flip/flop greetings in South Texas / Scott J. Bird -- Crimen organizado y migración clandestina en Tamaulipas / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez -- The drug cartel and drug-related violence in Matamoros / Daniel Perales -- An assessment and an explanation of the recent violence in Tamaulipas, Mexico / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- The Border Wall, a poem / Tom Emrick.

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  The Buena Vida Barrio: A Brownsville transitional neighborhood

  Baltazar Arispe y Acevedo Jr., Ignacio E. Rodríguez, Oralia De Los Reyes, University of Texas at Brownsville, and Texas Southmost College

  This barrio is a micro representation of the overall low quality of life that has been identified for both Cameron County and the City of Brownsville by the U.S. Census Bureau. There were several mitigating variables that emerged from the data that will have some impact on this barrio’s ability to become part of the region’s economic and social mainstream. Of these the most challenging were the high percentages of undocumented residents, the inordinate numbers of renters, the low economic capacity of employed residents and the high crime rates that exceed those of the region in general. The most notable of these assets are the two elementary schools that are performing at any outstanding level by all standard measures.

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  Yet more studies in Rio Grande Valley history

  Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight

  Frontera, a poem / Elvira Ardalani -- Strasbourg, Alsace, and Brownsville, Texas : ideal sister cities / Milo Kearney -- La concepción de la identidad fronteriza en Jovita Gonzalez y Adela Sloss de Vento / Laura Garza -- Cuando se fundo Matamoros? / Andres F. Cuellar -- The formation and early development of the Llano Grande / Maria Vallejo -- Doño Rosa Maria Hinojosa de Balli and her family : a lower Rio Grande Valley family in an Atlantic perspective / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Clarksville : a forgotten community on the Rio Grande / Jim Mills -- The last battle of the Civil War / Norman Rozeff -- The Spanish Influenza epidemic in Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico / Jorge Hernandez -- El Puerto de Brownsville newspaper: the voice of the Mexican-American Community / Cipriano Cardenas -- McAllen’s key contribution to the U.S. Cuban history / Oscar Sordo -- La amenaza de la Encefalitis y una visita presidencia a Matamoros en 1971 / Rosaura Alicia Davila -- Oscar Casares, frontera writer : a little more hope, a little less fear / Manuel Medrano -- Immigrant child, a poem / James Brandenburg -- Undocumented immigrants narratives : a view from the banks of the Lower Rio Grande / John A. Cook -- The tragedy of unaccompanied child immigrants to the U.S.-Mexico border 2014 / Antonio Noe Zavaleta Reid and Mitchell A. Kaplan -- Young, wild, and free : narratives de jóvenes migrantes Mexicanos detenidos en el Valle de Texas / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez -- The recent violence in Matamoros : are we living next to a war zone? / Anonymous -- The humorous side of Brownsville Police work / Ruben Garcia and Anthony Knopp -- Bilingual college education at UTB : improvement student success in the Rio Grande Valley / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Oralia de los Reyes -- The deaf community of Brownsville : site of controversy over language and identity / Mimosa Stephenson -- Antepasados, a poem / Janie Alonso.