TY - BOOK ID - 80874723 TI - Tejano legacy : rancheros and settlers in south Texas, 1734-1900 PY - 1998 SN - 0585354154 9780585354156 0826318665 9780826318664 0826318975 9780826318978 0826328504 PB - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure KW - Mexicans KW - Ranchers KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Ethnology KW - Border life KW - Homesteading KW - Pioneer life KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Manners and customs KW - Pioneers KW - Ranchmen KW - Stockmen (Animal industry) KW - Farmers KW - History. KW - Texas KW - Lower Rio Grande Valley KW - History KW - Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) KW - Rio Grande Valley, Lower (Tex.) KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80874723 AB - ""Alonzo makes judicious use of census records, tax rolls, and probate records to trace the evolution of Hispanic families who formed this community for more than five generations. . . . He forcefully dispels the myth that the area of Texas between San Antonio and the Rio Grande was a 'no man's land' prior to Anglo-American settlement.""-Choice ER -