Over great lengths of time, streams of snowmelt carved channels through limestone crags,always dutifully flowing toward the Gulf of Mexico. Continually descending, the great rivermeandered, sparing no land, obeying no government, splitting, and merging repeatedly. It spunoff tributaries, arroyos, and…

Honoring Pioneer Families of El Rio Bravo del Norte By Antonio Noé Zavaleta The history of Northeastern Mexico and South Texas is one of a struggle for survival against Native predations in an unforgiving environment where the few pioneering Spanish…

In: Further Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, January 2003, Edition: Chapter: The Zavaleta Family: A Legacy of Public Service, pp.25-70, The University of Texas at Brownsville, Editors: Milo Kearney, Anthony Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta. Antonio Zavaleta at University of…