Young Zapata

Episode 2 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Republic of the Rio Grande.Young Antonio Zapata is born in Revilla, Nuevo Santander, the son of a domestic servant and a cow hand. The same town from which our old friend, José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara (go listen to our "Finding Medina" series) was just getting his start as a revolutionary.Photo: Plains Warrior in Blue, Friedrich Richard Petri, artist, circa 1850 Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, accession #2197. Courtesy Republic of the Rio Grande Museum, Laredo, TX.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