In his book "Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986” David Montejano writes and explains how Anglos and Mexicans both contributed to the rise and making of the great state of Texas. The conflicts between these two groups of people caused Texas to grow and become the great state we know today. David Montejanos thesis is “Market based displacement within the Anglo community signified the replacement of one Anglo merchant landowner with another merchant landowner, Thus, market development for the Anglo community signified a ‘circulation of elites’ as well as an elaboration of internal class differences. For the Mexican population, displacement of the landowning classes had more devastating and irreversible effects. The land elite
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According to David Montejano the most essential individuals that contributed the most to the making of Texas were the merchants and land lawyers. David Montejano states “I will focus on the least romantic and colorful, the merchants and land lawyers. I focus on them because I wish to explain the ‘making of Texas”, a history of market penetration and development that cannot be related without these characters. In fact, the ‘winning’ of the West, of which the Mexican War was part, would be incomprehensible without merchants and lawyers” (page 15). In Montejanos eyes the making of Texas would not have occurred without the commitment and contribution of the merchants and land lawyers. We must thank the merchants and land lawyers for the boundaries of the Rio Grande River. Because they were so land hungry for the Rio Grande River were able to secure the river as the Mexican Texas border. The war for the Rio Grande River was exceptionally fundamental to the arrangement of the state of Texas. The Rio Grande River was viewed the same number of conceivable outcomes for the Texas economy to develop. The Rio Grande was viewed as a major door opening for trade with Santa Fe and Matamoros. Montejano writes “The commercial importance of the Rio Grande did not lie simply with the distant Santa Fe trade. What is usually overlooked but which proved to be as critical
According to David Montejano the most essential individuals that contributed the most to the making of Texas were the merchants and land lawyers. David Montejano states “I will focus on the least romantic and colorful, the merchants and land lawyers. I focus on them because I wish to explain the ‘making of Texas”, a history of market penetration and development that cannot be related without these characters. In fact, the ‘winning’ of the West, of which the Mexican War was part, would be incomprehensible without merchants and lawyers” (page 15). In Montejanos eyes the making of Texas would not have occurred without the commitment and contribution of the merchants and land lawyers. We must thank the merchants and land lawyers for the boundaries of the Rio Grande River. Because they were so land hungry for the Rio Grande River were able to secure the river as the Mexican Texas border. The war for the Rio Grande River was exceptionally fundamental to the arrangement of the state of Texas. The Rio Grande River was viewed the same number of conceivable outcomes for the Texas economy to develop. The Rio Grande was viewed as a major door opening for trade with Santa Fe and Matamoros. Montejano writes “The commercial importance of the Rio Grande did not lie simply with the distant Santa Fe trade. What is usually overlooked but which proved to be as critical