Lower Rio Grande Valley Curated Material
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Just a Ferry Ride to Freedom
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program (CHAPS)
This film showcases stories about the Texas-Mexico border and its connection to the Underground Railroad. Rooted in pre-Civil War Texas along the Rio Grande between the emerging cities of Laredo and Brownsville, this film highlights mixed-race ranches in Hidalgo County and illustrates how culturally diverse the Rio Grande Valley really is. Lifeways developed during that time still influence life along the border and across the US today. Featured in the film are community leaders, ranchers, scholars, and historians who find out how a just a ferry ride across the border to freedom altered the course of US history.
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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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Lloyd's magazine - The story of the Rio Grande Valley and other big features
Everett Lloyd
Black and white magazine. Story pertaining to the Rio Grande Valley: "The truth about the Rio Grande Valley and its builders".
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Los Del Valle Oral History Project
Manuel F. Medrano
The Los del Valle Oral History Project began in 1992 with the objectives of collecting and preserving the historical recollections of people in South Texas researched by scholars and underdocumented in archives and published research. Some interviewees have received national acclaim, such as folklorist and scholar Americo Paredes, conjunto pioneers Narciso Martinez and Eva Ybarra, writer Carmen Tafolla and Medal of Honor recipient Jose M. Lopez. Also included are Benito Trevino, ethnobotanist from Rio Grande City and Mary Helen Berlanga, educational proponent from Corpus Christi. This is one of the first oral history collections about Mexican Americans in Texas to be preserved on videotape. Thirty edited volumes and numerous unedited profiles are on loan at the Latin American Studies Collection in the Nettie Benson Library at the University of Texas at Austin.
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McAllen, Texas, the city of palms
McAllen Chamber of Commerce (Tex.) and Johnston Printing & Advertising Company
Hand-colored promotional booklet highlighting McAllen, Texas.
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Memories: A glimpse of life in Brownsville, Texas and other cities in the 1940s
Earl Bowman
The black and white/color silent film features highlights of a road trip from Oneida, Illinois to Brownsville, Texas, including film of Oklahoma, North Texas, the Rio Grande Valley and New Orleans, Louisiana. Featured in the film are Charro Days celebrations and Pan American Airways at Brownsville.
This film was taken originally in 1940 on 8 mm. film by Mr. & Mrs. Earl Bowman of Oneida, Illinois, on their trip to Brownsville, Texas to visit Mr. and Mrs. Royal Sundell. Royal Sundell was the manager of Pan-American Airways in Brownsville.
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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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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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Nuevo Santander The Unrealized Archaeological Potential of a “Civilian” Province in Northern New Spain
Russell K. Skowronek, Christopher L. Miller, and Roseann Bacha-Garza
In 1746 the Viceroy of New Spain called for the founding of a new province to be located between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River. Between 1748-1755 two dozen civilian communities of farmers and ranchers were established by the province’s founder José de Escandón. Many towns were founded along the banks of the Rio Grande where there was access to water and lands for agriculture and grazing. Each town served as the administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical hub for surrounding land grants and ranches. Were it not for the work of W. Eugene George, Mindy Bonine, and Mary Jo Galindo, our knowledge of the architectural and archaeological history of this region would be woefully incomplete. In this presentation the CHAPS Program team draws on the work of these pioneers and continuing original research concerning the surviving archaeological and architectural record of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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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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Palm Bowl: NAIA National Championship Football 1979
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
Promotional brochure of the 1979 Palm Bowl. It was the NAIA National Football Championship played at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas on December 15, 1979.
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Pan American College 2nd Annual Inter-Collegiate Rodeo, April 23-25, 1964 Official Program
Pan American College and National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association
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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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Plan of Development for Valley Gravity Project, Lower Rio Grande, Texas
United States. Department of the Interior
PROJECT REPORT NO. 5-0619-0
The Valley Gravity Project plan has been formulated to furnish an adequate and dependable irrigation water supply for fertile and productive area in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. It would also provide drainage works, which would remove the threat of destruction of the economy of the area due to effects of a high water table and salt accumulations. The project works would permit generation of the maximum practicable amount of electrical energy and at the same time the plan would free for industrial and other development of the valley electrical energy which otherwise would be required to operate irrigation pumping plant. Other incidental benefits include fish and wildlife conservation, recreation and flood control.
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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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Satisfacción al público del administrador de la Aduana Marítima de Matamoros
Manuel Pina y Cuevas
(Original introduction)
La acalorada controversia sobre introduccion por el puerto e Matamoros de efectos prohibidos que parecia haber ya terminado, se ha vuelto a suscitar ocasion de haberse decomisado en el Saltillo cinta cantidad de libras de hilaza de algodon estrangera, que caminaba con guias de esta Aduana maritima...
Para vindicarme a mi y a ella, basta publicar ,el informe justificativo que se acompania, estendido en cumplimiento de la orden del Ministerio de Hacienda pues en el se ve que cuando por Suprema disposicion de 1 de Mayo de 1839 se volvio a permitir la introduccion por este puerto de efectos prohibidos no se hizo excepcion ni exijio requisito alguno, a diferencian de la autorizacion de 30 de Septiembre ultimo, que solo permitia la introduccion de los efectos para los cuales librase expreso permiso el Sr. General Arista.
(Translated introduction)
The heated introduction controversy through the port and Matamoros of prohibited effects that seemed to have already finished has arisen again occasion of having been confiscated in Saltillo ribbon amount of pounds of cotton yarn stranger, who walked with guides of this Customs maritime...
To vindicate me and her, it is enough to publish the supporting justification report, issued in compliance with the order of the Ministry of Finance, since it is seen that when the Supreme Court provision of May 1, 1839, the introduction through this port of prohibited effects was allowed again, no exception was made nor did it require any requirements, unlike the authorization of September 30 last, that it only allowed the introduction of the effects for which Mr. General Arista expressly released permission.
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Souvenir of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas: original poems of the Valley and songs
W. E. Stewart Land Co.
America -- Fair Valley land -- Where the Rio Grande is flowing -- Going down to Texas -- Sweet Genevieve -- My old Kentucky home -- The Rio Grande Valley -- It's a long way to dear old Texas -- You're the flower of my heart, sweet Adeline -- When you and I were young, Maggie -- The Lower Rio Grande -- The land of corn and cane -- Silver threads among the gold. -- Good-by, old snow -- Loyalty to the Rio Grande. -- Old black joe -- Put on your old gray bonnet -- The old oaken bucket. -- Swanee River -- Nearer, my God, to thee -- When the roll is called up yonder. -- Brighten the corner where you are -- Rock of ages. -- Where He leads me I will follow. -- There is a fountain. -- Jesus, lover of my soul. -- Good night medley. -- Good night, ladies. -- My castle on the Rio Grande. -- How you goin' to keep 'em way up north. -- Throbs from the heart of joy land. -- The Wanderer. -- L envoi. -- The old order changeth. -- The lower valley in verse. -- Piedras de las conchas (The rocks of Concha, the Lily.) -- The first white man's cemetery in the Valley. -- The trip. Cities visited en route to and from the Valley. -- A golden wedding gift. -- As the train leaves the union station. -- The vision of San Juan. -- The pioneer's story -- Brief history of the W.E. Stewart Land Company and some serious thoughts. -- Bank statements. -- 'Til we meet again.
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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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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.