Tejanos
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Tejanos are descendants of mostly Native Americans and Spanish settlers, but also Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state. The term is also sometimes
Tejanos (1859)
Ranchero de Texas (1828). Tejano vaqueros were very different from the Mexican vaqueros of central Mexico, both in their costumes and customs. Tejanos were very humble in their dress; their saddles, while being Mexican in origin, were rough and heavy and lacked the finesse of the central Mexico saddles. This changed once Mexican traditions were adopted by the Tejanos.
Spanish Creoles from Texas
Juan Seguín, Tejano leader of the Texas Revolution and statesman in the Republic of Texas
Texas Revolution
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The Texas Revolution was a rebellion by Anglo-American immigrants as well as Hispanic Texans against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although the uprising
The campaigns of the Texas Revolution
A reproduction of the original Come and take it flag, which flew during the battle of Gonzales
General Martín Perfecto de Cos
Antonio López de Santa Anna