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""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

Land tenure --- Mexicans --- Ranchers --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Ethnology --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Ranchmen --- Stockmen (Animal industry) --- Farmers --- History. --- Texas --- Lower Rio Grande Valley --- History --- Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) --- Rio Grande Valley, Lower (Tex.) --- Ethnic relations.