SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS © 2000, Wallace L. McKeehan, All
Rights Reserved Colonial Life | Coahuila y Tejas--Index (From a
May 4, 1998 article by Dr. Andrés Provided courtesy of Randall
Tarin from the files of Alamo de Parras This article focuses on
Texas between 1821 and 1836 in an effort to provide structure
for an understanding of the exchange of land, power, culture,
and social institutions that took place between the two
frontiers during those critical years. Historians have amply
recorded the battles and the Anglo-American's military,
economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands. But
this study attempts to document the reverse flow in this
interchange. It represents an attempt to demonstrate the two-way
cultural exchange within a limited scope. The purpose today is
to describe the basic institutions of Tejano life and culture
and then to document their transmission to the Anglo-American
frontier. Thus, it should provide a foundation for the study of
the early Mexican-American culture in Tex