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_bM34 2010
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100 1 _aMcDonald, David R.
_d, 1941
245 1 0 _aJosé Antonio Navarro
_b: in search of the American Dream in nineteenth-century Texas
_c/ by David McDonald ; foreword by Arnoldo De León.
260 _aDenton
_b: Texas State Historical Association
_c, c2010.
300 _axviii, 340 p.
_b: ill., maps
_c; 23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aRoots, 1762-1816 -- Emerging leader, 1816-22 -- The making of a legislator, 1822-28 -- Businessman, land commissioner, and politician, 1828-35 -- Mexican-Texan, 1835-40 -- Statesman and prisoner, 1840-45 -- Tejano spokesman, 1845-53 -- Elder statesman, 1853-71 -- Appendix one : Margarita de La Garza -- Appendix two : Henry Navarro notes -- Appendix three : José Antonio Navarro's will.
520 1 _aBorn in San Antornio in 1795, José Navarro lived through an era in Texas history that saw the transitions of Texas from a Spanish colony to a Mexican state, an independent republic, an American state, a Confederate state, and an American state once again. He was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a steadfast defender of the rights of all Tejanos and people of Mexican descent in Texas.
600 1 0 _aNavarro, José Antonio
650 4 _aStatesmen
_z-United States
_v--Biography
650 4 _aBusinessmen
_z-United States
_v--Biography
650 _aMexican Americans
_v--Biography
650 4 _aStatesmen
_z-United States
_v--Biography
651 _aTexas
_x-History
_y-Republic, 1836-1846
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