Luna Farming Legacy

Luna Farming Legacy

Author: Lorena Bryan et al

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780998207087

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Descendants of Spanish Colonial settlers have been practicing subsistence farming along the Rio Grande for over 250 years. As that same river became the international boundary between the US and Mexico in 1848, landownership and the landscape began to change. As issues in Mexico such as the Mexican Revolution pushed families over the river into the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, many folks established themselves as farmers along side the new arrivals from the American Midwest in the early 1900s. The guarantee of successful year-round farming was a prominent theme and the Lunas were willing and able to embark on that challenge. As their life in the US began with some time in Los Ebanos, the family eventually found themselves purchasing land and farming in Edinburg. Today Luna family members are still farming in a section of northwest Edinburg fondly referred to as "Lunaville" by fellow farmers.


Historic Laredo

Historic Laredo

Author: Maria Eugenia Guerra

Publisher: HPN Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1893619168

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An illustrated history of Loredo, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.