Remembering Catarino Garza's 1891 revolution: An aborted border insurrection

Mexican Studies - Estudios Mexicanos

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-272

  Young, Elliott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 67650312795     PISSN: 07429797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1051845     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adolfo Duclos Salinas, Méfico pacificado: El progreso de Méjico y los bombres que lo gobiernan (St. Louis: Hughs, 1904), 154.;
2. and Francisco Montemayor, Sabinas Hidalgo, tradición, leyenda e historia (Monterrey: Imp. Monterrey, 1949), 159-160.
3. Also, see the collection of Garza's documents in Celso Garza Guajardo, En busca de Catarino Garza, 1859-1895, (Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 1989).
4. Garza Guajardo, En busca, 34.
5. Garza, "La era de Tuxtepec," in Garza Guajardo, En busca, 268.
6. Benavides, "Manifiesto," in Chase Report, GRP, p. 3.
7. Catarino Garza, "Manifiesto," 1 Nov. 1891, in Garza Guajardo, En busca, p. 214.
8. "Editorial: La Zona Libre y 'La Semana Mercantil,'" La Revista del Norte (Matamoros), 13 Oct. 1889, p. 1, col. 2.
9. "La Zona Libre," El Correo de Laredo, 23 Sept. 1891, p. 2, col. 4.
10. Garza, "La lógica," 79, 121-65;
11. David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (Austin: University of Texas, 1987), 72.
12. Arnoldo De León, The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1982), 63,
13. He has been honored in Laredo by having a school, a street, and a plaza named after him; also the town of Bruni was established on part of his ranch land. Biographical information on Bruni may be found in Felix Garcia, The Children of A. M. Bruni (Laredo: 1984) and The Cattleman XVIII (Apr. 1931), p. 31.
14. and for more on Manuel Guerra see Evan Anders, Boss Rule in South Texas: The Progressive Era (Austin: University of Texas, 1987), 43-44.
15. "Another Garza Band Routed by Our Troops," Herald, 7 Jan. 1892 in AREM, leg. 11-1044, parte 3, f. 62;
16. "Garza's Father-in-law Arrested," The New York Times, 28 Feb. 1892, in AREM, leg. 11-1044, parte 5, f. 180;
17. "Captura," El Cronista Mexicano, 15 Oct. 1892, p. 3, col. 1.
18. "La Revolución," El Internacional, Palito Blanco, Texas, 6 Feb. 1892, p. 2, col. 2-3.
19. For more on Anglo-Mexican class and race relations in Laredo, see Elliott Young, "Deconstructing La Raza: Culture and Ideology of the Gente Decente of Laredo, 1904-1911," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (Oct. 1994).
20. Jesus T. Recío, ed., El Bién Publico: La guerra contra la paz ó un nuevo atila (Rio Grande City: Imprenta Jesus T. Recío, 1895), 49.
21. "Texas and Texans," San Antonio Express, 4 Jan. 1892, p. 2, col. 6.
22. Unfortunately, the widespread acceptability of the racist arguments made in Richard Hernstein and Charles Murray's bestseller book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: Free Press, 1994), demonstrates that at the end of the twentieth century biological explanations for socially produced inequalities continue to carry weight for large sectors of the United States.
23. John G. Bourke, "The American Congo," Scribner's, New York, (May 1894), 594.
24. Joseph C. Porter, Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), 290.
25. Matías Romero, "The Garza Raid and Its Lessons," The North American Review, 155 (Sept. 1892): 335.
26. Donaldo Velasco, Asalto de Bocas del Toro por el general Catarino Erasmo Garza, con su retrato; relación histórica, (Bogotá: Tip. Salesiana, 1896), 36-37;