Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920

January 22, 2015, Tom Dart, The Guardian -- Hundreds, if not thousands, of Mexicans and Mexican Americans were killed in a little-known but brutal border conflict a century ago, with members of the celebrated law enforcement agency implicated in many of the deaths. The consequences of the violence have echoed for generations through race relations in the Texas borderlands. View Article

February 25, 2016, Danielle Lopez, Alcalde -- Two Texas Rangers sit on their horses and proudly pose for a photo in 1915. Attached to the ends of their ropes, dragging on the ground, are four dead Mexican-American “bandits” who had just been killed by U.S. soldiers in a raid on King Ranch. When all was said and done, the Texas Rangers had come in and set up the image to convey a single message—they were in charge. View Article

January 21, 2016, Marty Schladen, El Paso Times -- It’s better late than never that Texas is fully acknowledging state-sanctioned violence that took place along the Mexican border a century ago, scholars said Thursday. View Article

January 31, 2016 , Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express News -- The decade 1910 to 1920 was a tumultuous one on the border. On one side, Mexico was in the midst of revolution. On the other, only 65 years after becoming a part of the United States, South Texas was undergoing revolutions of its own. View Article

Jan. 21, 2016 , Rachel Griess, UT News -- Photos and artifacts from one of the most violent decades in Texas history — a period often glossed over or forgotten — will be on display in a new exhibition at the Bullock Texas State History Museum that is the culmination of a University of Texas at Austin research initiative. View Article

January 16, 2016, Daniel A. Flores, Valley Morning Star -- South Texas College history instructor Trinidad O. Gonzales grew up hearing of violence perpetrated by Texas Rangers against those in the Rio Grande Valley, including in his own family. View Article

February 3, 2016, Cindy Casares, Latina -- A new exhibit in Austin, Texas examines a little-known chapter in the state's history, a time when Texas Rangers and white, civilian vigilantes massacred hundreds—if not thousands—of Mexican Americans or Tejanos between 1915 and 1919 in what historians have called some of the worst state-sanctioned racial violence in the U.S. View Article

January 17, 2016, Daniel Flores, The McAllen Monitor -- South Texas College history instructor Trinidad O. Gonzales grew up hearing of violence perpetrated by Texas Rangers against those in the Rio Grande Valley, including in his own family. View Article

February 21, 2016, Michael Barnes, The Austin American-Statesman -- In 1910, Antonio Rodríguez, a 20-year-old Mexican, was accused of killing Effie Greer Henderson at her ranch home near Rocksprings, close to the jagged southern slopes of the Edwards Plateau. A posse took him to the Rocksprings jail, but two days after the killing, a mob yanked him from his cell and burned him alive at the stake. View Article

February 5, 2016, Virginia Alvino, Texas Public Radio -- Texas is a state proud of its history. But, like any history, the Lone Star State’s has largely been written by its victors. View Article

January 29, 2016, Lucia Benavides, KUT -- Paulino Serda was a small ranch owner near Edinburg, Texas, in 1915 when a group of Mexican bandits came through town. They demanded he open the gates that connected the ranches so the group could pass. View Article

January 29, 2016, Lucia Benavides, TexasStandard.org -- Paulino Serda was a small ranch owner near Edinburg, Texas, in 1915 when a group of Mexican bandits came through town. They demanded he open the gates that connected the ranches so the group could pass. View Article

October 7, 2015, Latino Centric -- State-sanctioned racial violence on the Mexico-Texas border against Mexican Americans from 1910 through 1920 was some of the worst violence ever perpetrated in this country. It prompted a struggle for justice and civil rights. View Article