Vaqueros in Blue & Gray - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vaqueros in Blue & Gray write by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 2000. Vaqueros in Blue & Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States' Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos -- Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in the ranks of the Confederacy while 950, including some Mexican nationals, fought for the Stars and Stripes. This is the story of these Tejanos who participated in the Civil War.
Vaqueros in Blue & Grey
Vaqueros in Blue & Grey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vaqueros in Blue & Grey write by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 1976. Vaqueros in Blue & Grey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tejanos in Gray
Tejanos in Gray - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tejanos in Gray write by Jerry Thompson. This book was released on 2011-02-17. Tejanos in Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . . The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms: whites from the North and South fighting over states’ rights, usually centered on the issue of black slavery. But, as Jerry Thompson shows in Tejanos in Gray, motivations for allegiance to the South were often more complex than traditional interpretations have indicated. Gathered for the first time in this book, the forty-one letters and letter fragments written by two Mexican Texans, Captains Manuel Yturri and Joseph Rafael de la Garza, reveal the intricate and intertwined relationships that characterized the lives of Texan citizens of Mexican descent in the years leading up to and including the Civil War. The experiences and impressions reflected in the letters of these two young members of the Tejano elite from San Antonio, related by marriage, provide fascinating glimpses of a Texas that had displaced many Mexican-descent families after the Revolution, yet could still inspire their loyalty to the Confederate flag. De la Garza, in fact, would go on to give his life for the Southern cause. The letters, translated by José Roberto Juárez and with meticulous annotation and commentary by Thompson, deepen and provide nuance to our understanding of the Civil War and its combatants, especially with regard to the Tejano experience. Historians, students, and general readers interested in the Civil War will appreciate Tejanos in Gray for its substantial contribution to borderlands studies, military history, and the often-overlooked interplay of region, ethnicity, and class in the Texas of the mid-nineteenth century.
Civil War & Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier
Civil War & Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil War & Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier write by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 2004. Civil War & Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier contains more than 125 of the best images taken by De Planque and other photographers, the vast majority having never been published. From numerous archives and private collections, these images include everything from the destruction following the killer hurricane of 1867 to gripping views of the heart-wrenching hanging of an American army deserter and three unfortunate followers of Cortina, who happened to get caught on the wrong side of the river.
River of Hope
River of Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook River of Hope write by Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez. This book was released on 2013-01-16. River of Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation to state power, and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders neither began nor ended the region's long history of unequal power relations. Nor did it lead residents to adopt singular colonial or national identities. Instead, their regionalism, transnational cultural practices, and kinship ties subverted state attempts to control and divide the population. Diverse influences transformed the borderlands as Spain, Mexico, and the United States competed for control of the region. Indian slaves joined Spanish society; Mexicans allied with Indians to defend river communities; Anglo Americans and Mexicans intermarried and collaborated; and women sued to confront spousal abuse and to secure divorces. Drawn into multiple conflicts along the border, Mexican nationals and Mexican Texans (tejanos) took advantage of their transnational social relations and ambiguous citizenship to escape criminal prosecution, secure political refuge, and obtain economic opportunities. To confront the racialization of their cultural practices and their increasing criminalization, tejanos claimed citizenship rights within the United States and, in the process, created a new identity. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
