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The Museum of South Texas History will host the Sunday Speaker Series Online, “Railroaded in the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1865-1881,” featuring Kyle B. Carpenter on Facebook Live. This presentation will focus on the competition among railroad entrepreneurs in the Rio Grande borderlands. The end of civil war on the Rio Grande brought the end of the boom in cotton smuggling, which caused commercial networks in the borderlands to disintegrate. As business interests realigned during a period of regional economic decline, most individuals saw the key to revival through transportation. For Europeans and Anglo-Americans, success lay in building a modern railroad system to control a transportation monopoly to undermine Mexican cart men.
Carpenter is the Interim Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain in Mena, Arkansas. He is the author of “A Failed Venture in the Nueces Strip: Misconceptions and Mismanagement of the Beales Rio Grande Colony, 1832–1836” in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and “The Mexican Law of April 6, 1830: The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company in Mexican Texas, 1830-1836” in the Journal of South Texas.
The Sunday Speaker Series presentation will live stream on the museum’s Facebook page. A recording will be published right after the presentation is over. All are welcome to chime in.
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200 N Closner Blvd, Edinburg, TX, United States, Texas 78541
