Tejano empire
Subtitle: life on the south Texas ranchos
By: Andrés Tijerina ; illustrations by Ricardo M. Beasley ; detail drawings by Servando G. Hinojosa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ;; no. 7
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: College Station, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Nueces River Valley -- Social life and customs.; Ranch life -- Texas -- Nueces River Valley.; Nueces River Valley (Tex.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Andres Tijerina has mined both traditional and nontraditional sources to portray the daily lives of the Texans of Mexican descent who peopled the Nueces Strip and surrounding areas in the period following the Texas Revolution. From then until the major demographic changes of the 1880s, Mexico-Tejanos laid the foundation for later leadership within the Mexican American political and business movements.

In terms clear to a general reading public, Tijerina describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, strong family values, cultural loyalty, networks of communication, Catholic religion, and a material culture well adapted to the conditions of the region."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and index.