Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 2015, the Cara Mía Theatre Company produced Lydia by Octavio Solis as a part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center's Elevator Project. Often compared to iconic American family dramas such as Death of a Salesman, the play is set in El Paso, Texas and centers around the bond between an undocumented maid and her boss's disabled teenage son. The ...
Martín de Alarcón, who had been appointed governor of Texas in late 1716, wished to establish a way station between the settlements along the Rio Grande and the new missions in East Texas. [41] Alarcón led a group of 72 people, including 10 families, into Texas in April 1718, where they settled along the San Antonio River .
Drawn in 1718 by Guillaume Delisle. Los Adaes was the capital of Tejas (Texas) on the northeastern frontier of New Spain from 1721 to 1773. It included a Franciscan mission, San Miguel de Cuéllar de los Adaes, [3] and a presidio, Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes (Our Lady of the Pillar of the Adaes).
In 1911 an extremely bloody decade-long civil war broke out in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Texas, raising the Hispanic population from 72,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1920. Most job opportunities for them involved working on a ranch or a farm starting from South Texas and moving north and northeast.
Kim Anno (BFA 1983, MFA 1985), abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker; department chair and professor at California College of the Arts [2]; Anthony Aziz (MFA 1990), of the duo Aziz + Cucher, pioneer in the field of fine art digital imaging and post-photography, professor of fine arts and associate dean of faculty at Parsons School of Design [3]
The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although the uprising was part of a larger one, the Mexican Federalist War, [citation needed] that included other ...
Texas (/ ˈtɛksəs / ⓘ TEK-səss, locally also / ˈtɛksɪz / TEK-siz; [8] Spanish: Texas or Tejas, [b] pronounced [ˈtexas]) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and an international border with ...
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.