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Charro Days in Brownsville /
- Title
- Charro Days in Brownsville / Anthony Knopp, Manuel Medrano, Priscilla Rodriguez, and the Brownsville Historical Association.
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., ©2009.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Brownsville, Texas was established in 1850 on the banks of the Rio Grande. Every February since 1938 this city of nearly 200,000 has joined its neighboring city across the river, Matamoros, Mexico, to celebrate their shared cultural heritage. Anthony Knopp, emeritus professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Manuel Medrano, professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville, and Priscilla Rodriguez, executive director of the Brownsville Historical Association provide a detailed history of this annual festival in Brownsville, Texas. Many photographs used in this history are from the archives of the Brownsville Historical Association.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America.
- Subjects
- Festivals
- Ethnic festivals
- Brownsville (Tex.) > Social life and customs
- Charro Days (Brownsville, Tex.) > History
- Manners and customs
- Festivals > Texas > Brownsville > History
- Mexican Americans > Social life and customs
- Ethnic festivals > Texas > Brownsville > History
- Texas > Brownsville
- History
- Mexican Americans > Texas > Brownsville > Social life and customs
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
- ISBN
- 9780738578514
- 0738578517
- LCCN
- 2009927144
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library