Las Villas del Norte

Episode 1 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Republic of the Rio Grande.In the 1750's, Carrizo Indians living in the lower Rio Grande Valley greeted two new groups of settlers: the Lipan Apaches and the Spanish. For the next two generations, the freedoms - and terrors - of the region continued to attract a hardy array of new settlers, including a surprisingly large percentage of "mulatos," Afro-Mexicans who found refuge on the distant Rio Grande frontier.Photo: The red sandstone church in Old Revilla, Public Domain.Selected BibliographyAnna, Timothy E. Forging Mexico: 1821-1835 (1998).Casa Blanca Articles of ConventionDe la Garza, Lorenzo. Dos Hermanos Heroes (1939).Gallegos, Juan José. “Last Drop of My Blood: Col. Antonio Zapata: A Life and Times on México’s Río Grande Frontier, 1797-1840.”Lack, Paul D. Searching for the Republic of the Rio Grande (2022).Lott, Virgil N. and Mercurio Martinez. The Kingdom of Zapata (1953).Nance, Joseph. After San Jacinto: The Texas Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (1970).Plan del Rancho de Puntiagudo. University of St. Andrews.Vázquez, Josefina Zoraida. La Supuesta República del Río Grande (1995).www.BrandonSeale.com