tijerina2012

@InCollection{ tijerina2012,
	author = {Andrés Tijerina},
	title = {Foreigners in Their Native Land: The Violent Struggle between Anglos and Tejanos for Land Titles in South Texas during Reconstruction},
	pages = {305--325},
	crossref = {howell2012},
	year = 2012,
}

p. 306: “The major thesis of this chapter is that Anglos accelerated their efforts to steal vast landholdings from Tejanos during the Reconstruction years, a process that began shortly after the conclusion of the Texas Revolution.”

Often this was accomplished by vigilante bands of Anglos who perpetrated violent attacks like the Peñascal raid of 1875. The line between vigilantes and officials like Captain L. H. McNelly was blurry if not non-existent, and state officials even actively campaigned for federal compensation of expenses incurred by Texas border defenders like McNelly because of their willingness to use torture and summary execution. (This may provide an important larger context for the Brownsville Affair of 1907, as it indicates a longstanding hostility not only to people of color but to federal troops along the border.)