UTRGV & TSC Regional History Series

Illustrator

Noel Palmenez, Peter B. Gawenda

Description

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.

Publication Date

2008

Publisher

University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

City

Brownsville

Keywords

History--Texas, History--Mexico, Politics & government, Economic & social conditions

Disciplines

Anthropology | Economics | Environmental Studies | History | Social History | United States History

Comments

Alternative Title: UTB/TSC regional history series ; v.8

Call Number: F392.R5 U83 2008

Copyright Status: In Copyright - Digital Collections Rights and Usage Statement

Location of Original Item: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Library

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