La Terraza: The Conjunto Hall Corpus Christi Forgot
Corpus Christi had places where almost everyone felt welcome. Galvan Ballroom had its polished dance floor and orchestra tradition. Domingo […]
Early Tejano/Norteño Sound: one of the first groups to play, and their music is at the Smithsonian.
Ramiro Cavazos died in McAllen on July 2 at the age of 99. His name may not be familiar to
The first European immigrants who came to America before Jamestown and Plymouth Rock were my ancestors.
The story is faction (reconstructed as not all things are recorded) but the expedition was recorded. There is even a
We Were Here First. We Ain’t Going Nowhere.
Chala Vato, we ain’t going nowhere. There is a story Americans like to tell about California. First there was empty
The Tortillas Hollywood Left Off the Cattle Drive
You can leave people out of the movie. You cannot erase the fact that they were there. I grew up
Starr County: Four Hundred Years of Solitude
How an ancient web of families survived empires, borders, and outsiders Starr County survived four hundred years of solitude because
Markwayne Mullin – the White man who is Native American
The Trail That Did Not Lead to a Card My family followed a different trail. It began in New Mexico
27th Division, 102nd Medical Battalion, WWII
What the 102nd Medical Battalion Did The image on the left is my uncle, Armando Barrera, and my father, Manuel
J T Canales, Investigation of the Texas Rangers 1919
. Not much has changed in the last one hundred years; we still have men in masks terrorizing Latinos, men
Texas Borderland Mystery
The New Mexico Clue The first clue did not look like a clue. It was only a line in an
