Early Tejano Ranching

Daily Life at Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo

Andrés Sáenz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2001
Texas A & M University Press (Verlag)
978-1-58544-134-1 (ISBN)

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For two and a half centuries Tejanos have lived and ranched on the land of South Texas. This modest book tells the story of one family, the Saenzes, who established Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo. Obtaining land grants from the municipality of Mier in Tamaulipas, these settlers crossed the Wild Horse Desert into present-day Duval County in the 1850s and 1860s. Through the simple, direct telling of his family's stories, Andres Saenz lets readers learn about their homes of piedra (stone) and sillares (large blocks of limestone or sandstone), as well as the jacales (thatched-roof log huts) in which people of more modest means lived. Cattle raising, marriages and deaths, feasts and droughts, education, medicine, and domestic arts are all recreated through the words of this descendent. The accounts celebrate a way of life without glamorizing it or distorting the hardships. Those who seek to understand the ranching and ethnic heritage of Texas will enjoy and profit from Early Tejano Ranching.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2001
Einführung	Andrés Tijerina
Zusatzinfo	41 b&w photos., 2 line drawings., 2 maps., Gloss.
Verlagsort	College Station
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 238 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-58544-134-1 / 1585441341
ISBN-13	978-1-58544-134-1 / 9781585441341
Zustand	Neuware