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Featuring over 70 photographs by Rick Williams, this volume portrays the daily lives of Texans at work in the industries that comprise the three economic pillars of the state: ranching, oil, and microcomputer technology. The photographs reveal the factors that link these different industries.

Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. This book describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, and networks of communication.

Born in 1842 to a wealthy Victoria, Texas, planter, Victor Marion Rose served as publisher and editor of the Victoria Advocate from 1869 to 1873 before moving to Laredo, where he edited the Laredo Times. Wild Rose provides a portrait of a complicated individual who, despite his struggles with his demons, nevertheless left an important mark on Texas history and letters.