De León, a Tejano Family History

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Minority Studies
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Author: Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm ISBN: 9780292782716
Publisher: University of Texas Press Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: University of Texas Press Language: English
Author: Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm
ISBN: 9780292782716
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Language: English

La familia de Len was one of the foundation stones on which Texas was built. Martn de Len and his wife Patricia de la Garza left a comfortable life in Mexico for the hardships and uncertainties of the Texas frontier in 1801. Together, they established family ranches in South Texas and, in 1824, the town of Victoria and the de Len colony on the Guadalupe River (along with Stephen F. Austin's colony, the only completely successful colonization effort in Texas). They and their descendents survived and prospered under four governments, as the society in which they lived evolved from autocratic to republican and the economy from which they drew their livelihood changed from one of mercantile control to one characterized by capitalistic investments.Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de Len family. She follows Martn and Patricia from their beginnings in Mexico through the establishment of the family ranches in Texas and the founding of the de Len colony and the town of Victoria. Then she details how, after Martn's death in 1834, Patricia and her children endured the Texas Revolution, exile in New Orleans and Mexico, expropriation of their lands, and, after returning to Texas, years of legal battles to regain their property. Representative of the experiences of many Tejanos whose stories have yet to be written, the history of the de Len family is the story of the Tejano settlers of Texas.

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La familia de Len was one of the foundation stones on which Texas was built. Martn de Len and his wife Patricia de la Garza left a comfortable life in Mexico for the hardships and uncertainties of the Texas frontier in 1801. Together, they established family ranches in South Texas and, in 1824, the town of Victoria and the de Len colony on the Guadalupe River (along with Stephen F. Austin's colony, the only completely successful colonization effort in Texas). They and their descendents survived and prospered under four governments, as the society in which they lived evolved from autocratic to republican and the economy from which they drew their livelihood changed from one of mercantile control to one characterized by capitalistic investments.Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de Len family. She follows Martn and Patricia from their beginnings in Mexico through the establishment of the family ranches in Texas and the founding of the de Len colony and the town of Victoria. Then she details how, after Martn's death in 1834, Patricia and her children endured the Texas Revolution, exile in New Orleans and Mexico, expropriation of their lands, and, after returning to Texas, years of legal battles to regain their property. Representative of the experiences of many Tejanos whose stories have yet to be written, the history of the de Len family is the story of the Tejano settlers of Texas.

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