Tejano Empire Book Favre’s piano class enjoying a

Favre’s piano class enjoying a picnic

and the appropriators who have borrowed it for political fame

Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization

Andrés 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

New Mexico

Tejano Empire Book Favre’s piano class enjoying aA silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle port holes still seen in crumbling walls that once protected families. It is a story of a life and culture rarely portrayed in standard historical accounts, but to some degree kept alive in literary works and ballads and revealed mutely in the material culture nineteenth century ranchers left behind. Andrs