Texians

The first shots of the Texas Revolution were sparked by a dispute over a very small, seemingly insignificant cannon in the town of Gonzales.

The Mexican military came to take it back, and the Texian colonists utterly refused.

They famously fashioned a flag depicting the cannon with the words, "Come and take it."

Wow.

A large part of my draw to this period of Texas history probably comes from a childhood fascination with the Texas Revolution of 1836, but particularly with the question of what were Tejanos fighting for in 1836.

Why are Tejanos fighting? You know, the story of, of, of Anglo-Texians and what they're fighting for is well told and, and talked about, but the truth is that the 1836 Texas Revolution does not succeed without Tejano participation, and in overwhelming numbers, they participate in favor of independence.

And so to understand that, you have to go back in history.

You have to go back in time, and we've spent a lot of time, and we've talked about it on this station about the Battle of Medina a generation earlier in, in 1813, and how if you look almost to a man, the, the members of Juan Seguin's company that, that fight all the way to San Jacinto in 1836 were the sons and nephews and grandsons, uh, of people who fought in the Battle of Medina and of people who had mothers and grandmothers and aunts who endured the, the horrors of La Quinta after the Battle of Medina here in San Antonio.

And so in a similar vein, in going through and looking at the history of other parts of Texas, uh, other Tejanos, and in this case, down in the Rio Grande Valley, I wanted to try to understand what it was that they were fighting for at this period as well.

Because what you have in 1838 and 1839 and 1840 in the Rio Grande Valley is you have another fronterizo, another borderland revolt led by Norteños, Northern Mexicans, Tejanos, but you have one that is never overtaken by Anglo-Texians in the same way as the 1835, 1836 revolt.

So it's a little bit of an unfiltered, undiluted control case to try and help understand what Tejanos are fighting for in this whole period.

And it's also just really interesting to see the role that what we know now as the border has played in so many different aspects of this part of history.

Not necessarily restore the pride, but like really make it something worthwhile.

the the gravitas of that moment and of that that sacrifice of those Texians

yes and I almost forgot the most important part or not the most important but we also have closed that busy street that the vibration from the big trucks and everything causing damage but the main thing is is we're really gonna you have a big pedestrian area now so it's that somber remembrance the whole experience is completely different so it's definitely worth a visit

Absolutely.

i'm sure barry loved hearing that about his mother

yeah no absolutely thanks that old lady uh but respect man he knows what he got right he knows what he has hey um dustin's getting taped up in the back oh we have an eight man this has been this was like a little few they were trying to kind of tease with us it's uh It's the Cole Twins plus it's Too Cold and Bagwell versus the Texicans and the Wrecking Crew in an eight-man match.

Blackjack's out there getting all racist on the mic, which is nice about Indians, but he is Indian, so we can say it.

But he's talking about the Indians, you know, scalping people, killing, just all kinds of shit.