Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. El Principio (The Beginning), 1800–1848
Chapter 2. Llegaron Los Americanos(The Americans Arrived), 1848–1860
Chapter 3. El Terreno (The Land), 1850–1900
Chapter 4. A Second Land Rush
Chapter 5. El Ganado Mayor (Large Livestock)
Chapter 6. Ranching Resurgence
Chapter 7. Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860–1874
Chapter 8. A New Social Order
Chapter 9. Growing Pains
Chapter 10. Sheep Replace Cattle
Chapter 11. Treading into Politics
Chapter 12. Establishing a New County
Chapter 13. Railroad Brings New Prosperity
Chapter 14. When Cotton Was King
Chapter 15. La Política, Revisited
Chapter 16. Dawn of a New Century
Chapter 17. The Tejano-Parr Alliance
Chapter 18 .Tejanos and the End of the Parr Era
Epilogue “Soy de Duval”
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index