WOMEN OF THE SOUTH TEXAS VAQUERO TRADITION
Tue, 2016-05-31 21:54
News Staff
EDINBURG, Texas — The Museum of South Texas History (“MOSTHistory”), a museum chronicling the heritage of South Texas and Northeastern Mexico, welcomes Diana Dominguez, an associate professor from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, to present “Sharp as nails, and just as hard”: Women in the South Texas Vaquero Tradition during the Sunday Speaker Series on Sunday, June 5 at 2 p.m.
Dominguez’ presentation will focus on five women who owned or managed large ranches in South Texas which many consider a South Texas vaquero tradition. During the Spanish-controlled era in South Texas, a law allowed women to own property under their names, even after marriage, thus protecting the daughters of land-owning families. These five fierce women from Victoria, South Padre Island and from outside San Antonio were eventually known as “Cattle Queens.”