Zapata County Folklore

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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Zapata County Folklore

Zapata County Folklore PDF Author:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Zapata County Folklore

Zapata County Folklore PDF Author: Zapata County Historical Society. Folklore Committee
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
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Zapata County Folklore, 1985-1986

Zapata County Folklore, 1985-1986 PDF Author: Zapata County Historical Society
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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The Spanish folklore of Webb and Zapata counties

The Spanish folklore of Webb and Zapata counties PDF Author: María del Refugio González
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Category : Folklore
Languages : es
Pages : 478

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Zapata County Roots Revisted

Zapata County Roots Revisted PDF Author: Jean Y. Fish
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Chicano Folklore

Chicano Folklore PDF Author: Rafaela Castro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195146394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.

Hecho en Tejas

Hecho en Tejas PDF Author: Joe S. Graham
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574410389
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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When the early Spanish and Mexican colonists came to settle Texas, they brought with them a rich culture, the diversity of which is nowhere more evident than in the folk art and folk craft. This first book-length publication to focus on Texas-Mexican material culture shows the richness of Tejano folk arts and crafts traditions.

Early Tejano Ranching

Early Tejano Ranching PDF Author: Andrés Sáenz
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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For two and a half centuries Tejanos have lived and ranched on the land of South Texas, establishing many homesteads and communities. This modest book tells the story of one such family, the Sáenzes, who established Ranchos San José and El Fresnillo. Obtaining land grants from the municipality of Mier in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, these settlers crossed the Wild Horse Desert, known as Desierto Muerto, into present-day Duval County in the 1850s and 1860s. Through the simple, direct telling of his family’s stories, Andrés Sáenz 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. He describes the cattle raising that formed the basis of Texas ranching, the carts used for transporting goods, the ways curanderas treated the sick, the food people ate, and how they cooked it. Marriages and deaths, feasts and droughts, education, and domestic arts are all recreated through the words of this descendent, who recorded the stories handed down through generations. The accounts celebrate a way of life without glamorizing it or distorting the hardships. The many photographs record a picturesque past in fascinating images. Those who seek to understand the ranching and ethnic heritage of Texas will enjoy and profit from Early Tejano Ranching.

The Volpe Family of Two Zapatas

The Volpe Family of Two Zapatas PDF Author: Zapata County Historical Commission
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Category : Zapata County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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The Fighting Padre of Zapata

The Fighting Padre of Zapata PDF Author: Edward Bastien
Publisher: Texas Western Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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"Father Edward Bastien was known in each of his South Texas parishes as a priest who would happily join in his parishioners' latest plumbing or electrical battles at home at the same time that he worked toward their spiritual well-being at church. But only when he arrived in the poor border town of Zapata, soon to be flooded by the building of the U.S.-Mexico Falcon Dam, did his tenacious efforts to help his parishioners fight the battle of their lives earn him the honorary moniker of the Fighting Father of Zapata." "Maria Rollin knew Father Bastien when she was a child. He gave her family a copy of his Zapata letters interspersed with his personal musings and anecdotes of the events of that time. Later Rollin realized that this man's manuscript is a humorous yet powerful personal account of bureaucracy gone amok, of poor South Texans forced into a diaspora, and of a priest who was willing to fight for the temporal as well as the spiritual needs of those who had no voice. This is his story."--BOOK JACKET.