Lower Rio Grande Valley Curated Material
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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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Native American Peoples of South Texas
University of Texas--Pan American. Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program (CHAPS), Bobbie L. Lovett, Juan L. Gonzalez, Roseann Bacha-Garza, and Russell K. Skowronek
Sponsored by Summerfield G. Roberts Grant.
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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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Photograph of Pan American Board of Regents
Black and white photograph. Pan American Board of Regents, reception April 1968. Left to Right: Garza, Carl Conley, Ralph Alexander, Felix Martinez, Ambasador of Urugua, Morris Atlas, John Jones Jr. Taken at Jones' Home in La Feria, Texas.
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Photograph of reception for Waggoner Carr before graduation
Black and white photograph. Board of Regents. From left to right: John Flores, Jr. Vice Regent, ,Joane Jones, Mrs. Carr, seated, Waggonner Carr, standing, Alicia Martinez, Felix Martinez, Mrs. Schilling, seated, Dr. Schilling, President of Pan American College towards back. Mick Conley, seated. Carl Conley. Rita Atlas, Morris Atlas, Vice Regent, Mrs. Alexander, Ralph (illegible). Photo by Pan American College Public Information Office, Edinburg, Texas.
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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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Proceedings of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force, Volume I
J. T. (Jose Tomas) Canales, William Madison Tidwell, Robert Lee Williford, Dan Scott McMillin, Paul Dewitt Page, and William Harrison Bledsoe
From the Texas State Library and Archives Commission Rangers and Outlaws web page:
"Raids and cattle theft had been a sporadic problem along the Mexican border for decades, but in 1915, revolutionaries began to target symbols of American oppression for destruction, including farms, irrigation systems, and railroad lines. Local law enforcement could not cope with the escalating lawlessness. The Texas governor dispatched the Texas Rangers to restore order and chase the revolutionaries back to the Mexican side of the line. (The unrest spanned the terms of three governors: Oscar Colquitt, James E. "Pa" Ferguson, and William Hobby.) As the violence grew worse, the legislature authorized the creation of special companies called Loyalty Rangers to police the border.
Unfortunately, these Rangers wrote a black chapter in the history of their organization. Not content to police the area, they engaged in heavy-handed bullying of the Tejano population and worse. It is estimated that as many as 5000 Hispanics were killed by the Rangers between 1914 and 1919. (About 400 white Texans were killed in the unrest on the border, and millions of dollars in property was destroyed.) Some shocking atrocities were perpetrated against civilians on both sides.
In 1918, Texas state representative José T. Canales of Brownsville launched an investigation into the conduct of the Texas Rangers during the border wars and filed nineteen charges of misconduct against the Rangers. The following year, the Texas legislature formed a joint House-Senate committee to look into Canales's charges. They heard testimony for two weeks.
As a result of the investigation, the Loyalty Rangers were abolished, and the Texas Rangers were reduced in force. Higher recruiting standards were put in place, and the pay of Rangers was increased to attract and retain higher-quality officers. Finally, procedures were implemented to better hear complaints from citizens about misconduct. These reforms helped the Rangers return to a position of respect during the 1920s and 1930s."
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Proceedings of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force, Volume II
J. T. (Jose Tomas) Canales, William Madison Tidwell, Robert Lee Williford, Dan Scott McMillin, Paul Dewitt Page, and William Harrison Bledsoe
Volume 3 is located 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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Recorded news items and historical facts as they happened down through the past years, some happy, some sad, some good, some bad
John R. Peavey
Sketches, photographs, and timeline kept by the author of local and national news between January 16, 1906 through December 7, 1941. Major topics covered are: local government, railroad, vegetable crops, prominent citizens, new cities, U.S. Army, assassinations, land buyers, sugar mills, weather, politicians, hospitals, airplane, Mexican Revolution, Mexican Border War, refugees, prohibition, WWI, Spanish flu, and transportation.
"At the beginning of this story I said that the facts and material for this story were taken from a diary that I kept through the years beginning in 1906. I now find that to describe everything that has happened and give a detailed account of what took place I will never finish this story, so I shall bring the story to a close in the following few pages so lets call them “tid-bits” or shorts of what took place during some of those early days in the land “South of the TexMex”."
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Reporting at the border:Translation in periodicals at the Texas-Tamaulipas border during the 19th century
Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
This paper addresses the historical relationship between journalism and translation. It approaches translation history by considering journalistic translation as found in newspapers published in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (the southernmost, easternmost stretch of the Mexico-US border) during the 19th century. Specifically, the paper will ask whether translation was a tool employed in journalistic activity in the region and, if so, what the role was of translation in such activity. It will review the presence of translation in available border periodicals from the 1840s to the end of the century. This review will show that regarding certain aspects, historical news translation in this region was like that found in other places (e.g. a tool for importing foreign news). However, it will also highlight some traits that are the consequence of the newspapers being published along an essentially porous border where languages and cultures flowed into each other to create a specific bilingual context.
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Roegiers Family Farm: a porción of Edinburg
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program (CHAPS), Annaiz Araiza, Stephen Cantu, Sara Chavez, Lizbeth De Leon, Juan Garza, Madelyn Ibarra, Octavio Ortiz, Sandre E. Pichardo, Jennifer Quintero, and Roseann Bacha-Garza
Today the citizenry of Edinburg lives in a bi-lingual, bi-national, and bi-cultural environment of Spanish- and English-speaking peoples. Were we to travel back eighty years to the 1930s and visit the ice houses, packing sheds, cotton gins, and streets of Edinburg it would not be unusual to hear people being greeted in a cacophony of languages- “Good Day,” “Buenos días (Spanish),” “Dzień dobry (Polish),” “Guten Tag (German),“ “God dag (Swedish),” and “Goede dag (Flemish).” Through the social process known as “chain migration” friends and family will learn of opportunities and then follow previous migrants to the new community. In this study we learn of Camiel Roegiers, a Flemish-speaking Belgium national who, as a “bird of passage,” makes three trips to the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century to work and live in Texas, Virginia, Kansas, and ultimately Edinburg, Texas. Along the way he was joined by his siblings, and in-laws.
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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.