From the Republic of the Rio Grande: A Personal History of the Place and the People

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Flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande, on display at the Republic of the Rio Grande Museum in Laredo, Texas. Vertical background for stars is red, bottom band is black, and top band is white. Courtesy of Joanna F. Fountain. Historical marker at the Capitol of the Republic of the Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas. Courtesy of Joanna F. Fountain. San Agustín de Laredo Historic District, Laredo, Texas (the streets of Laredo). Courtesy of the Texas Historical Commission. Juan Francisco Farías (1807–1870), secretary of the Republic of the Rio Grande. Courtesy of George Farías. Restored Capitol of the Republic of the Rio Grande. Courtesy of Joanna F. Fountain. San Agustín Cathedral and Plaza, Laredo, Texas. Laredo, Texas, circa 1890. Note the early bridge. San Agustín Parochial School. Courtesy of Webb County Heritage Foundation. Wedding portrait of Juana García and Víctor Montemayor in Las Escobas, Zapata County, October 1914. Leonardo Treviño home, built in the 1870s, in Zapata County, Texas. Note the tronera (gunport) near the roofline. Lucio García Garza and his mount in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, January 8, 1914. Wedding invitation of Juana García and Víctor Montemayor, ceremony to be held at the bride’s home in Las Escobas on October 2, 1914, at 3 a.m. Wedding invitation of María R. Muñoz and Juan Ugarte, the religious ceremony to be held in the parish church of Villaldama, Nuevo León, July 5, 1911, at 3 a.m. Courtesy of Adela F. Etcharren. Fabio de la Garza (far right) and cousins in Donna, Texas, 1925, dressed for a costume party. Left to right: Esther, Ofelia, and Nela de la Garza sitting atop their brother Fabio’s car in Raymondville, Texas, circa 1930. Nela de la Garza standing by the sign at the city limits of San Perlita, Texas, circa 1930. A child’s funeral cortege in Guerrero, Tamaulipas, November 1917. Horsemen on parade around the plaza in Guerrero, Tamaulipas, September 1926. Picnic at “Las Brisas” on the Río Salado, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, May 1927. Graduating class of the Ladies’ Sewing Academy, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, 1928. Lorenzo de la Garza ( left) with a visitor in the de la Garza home, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, circa 1945. Lorenzo de la Garza (right) with his father-in-law, Juan Martín Peña, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, circa 1905. Nela de la Garza in front of a window of the de la Garza home, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, circa 1945. Palacio Municipal (City Hall), Guerrero, Tamaulipas, circa 1950. Beatriz Eugenia de la Garza (far left) and friends in front of the Church of Nuestra Señora del Refugio, celebrating the Guerrero bicentennial in October 1950. Ofelia and Nela de la Garza in front of the ruins of their house in Guerrero Viejo, circa 1975. Church of Nuestra Señora del Refugio and Plaza Vicente Guerrero, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, circa 1950. Ruins of Nuestra Señora del Refugio Church. Guerrero Viejo, Tamaulipas, circa 2000. ...