La Pryor, Texas

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Chiquitita de la Pryor
Aldo Sierra
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"Title — 'Little Girl from La Pryor'"
I-35
Max Stalling
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"And look out there La Pryor, but I'm coming through can't you see"

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Nueces River 3 songs US Route 90 9 songs Frio River 13 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 163 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 250 songs Interstate 35 43 songs

Musical Heritage

The Opera House the Vice President Bought RoadyGoat

You're outside the Grand Opera House on North Street in Uvalde, a brick building that's been standing since 1891 and is reportedly the second-oldest opera house in Texas. In 1917 it was bought by John Nance Garner, the Uvalde native who went on to become Vice President of the United States. Garner set up his office in the corner room and positioned his desk chair in the turret windows, so he could watch over his hometown. The Garner estate sold the building to the City of Uvalde in 1978 for ten dollars, and after a restoration effort that started the following year, it reopened in 1982. It's still an active theater today, hosting plays and concerts under the same roof where Uvalde gathered more than a century ago. Not many opera houses this old are still turning the house lights on for a live show.

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History of La Pryor

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La Pryor sits nestled in the heart of South Texas, a place where the land speaks volumes. The terrain is mostly flat, sprawling plains covered in hardy mesquite trees, their deep roots a testament to the constant struggle for water. This is Nueces River country, and the river's presence is everything. It's the lifeblood that allows those famous onion fields to flourish, a green contrast to the otherwise tawny landscape. You can almost feel the ancient seabed beneath your feet, a reminder that this area was once submerged, slowly rising over millennia to become the fertile, if often dry, land it is today. The river also whispers of forgotten times. Local legend places hidden treasure somewhere along its banks, a remnant of the area’s wilder past. The droughts of the 1950s left a deep mark on the people here, a collective memory of hardship that shaped a resourceful and resilient community. Though the bright lights of San Antonio are within driving distance, and the roar of Friday night football in Uvalde fills the autumn air, La Pryor maintains a quiet, almost timeless quality, forever bound to the land and the river that sustains it.

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La Pryor is a small place, easy to miss if you blink driving down the highway. Mesquite trees stand guard on all sides, their roots digging deep for water. Farming is everything here, especially onions, though the old-timers still talk about the drought in the fifties and how hard it hit everyone. It’s quiet now, peaceful, a place where time seems to slow down. You can almost hear the echoes of the past if you listen closely.

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On June 4, 2026, La Pryor made headlines when the United States Department of Agriculture reported a case of New World screwworm infection in a 3-week old calf, the first in the United States in decades. This event led to a quarantine of all warm-blooded animals within a 12-mile radius to prevent an epidemic, highlighting a challenging moment for the community amidst a period of low cattle production and higher prices.

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Pryor, Isaac Thomas

1870

Isaac T. (Ike) Pryor, cattleman, the third and youngest son of David Christopher and Emma Almira (McKissack) Pryor, was born in Tampa, Florida, on June 22, 1852. Orphaned at age five, he lived with relatives in Alabama and Tennessee until age nine, when he ran away and attached himself as newsboy to the Third Ohio Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland. He witnessed battles at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain. He lived with a cousin's family in Tennessee after the war and eventually moved with them to Alabama. In 1870 his brother A. M. visited from Texas and described the opportunities there so enthusiastically that Ike, then eighteen years old, decided to pursue them. Pryor arrived at Galveston by way of New Orleans and immediately made his way to Austin. He worked as a farmhand near Austin until 1871, when he found employment with Llano County rancher Bill Arnold helping to drive a herd of longhorns to Coffeyville, Kansas; the next season, at age twenty, he was trail boss for the drive. In 1873 Pryor went to work for Mason County rancher Charles Lehmberg (Lemberg) as a hired hand; before the year's end he was foreman. Lehmberg sold his 20,000-acre 77 Ranch to Pryor in 1874, and the young businessman immediately diversified operations by contracting to deliver his neighbors' cattle to Kansas during the spring and summer, and by supplying nearby Austin with butcher cattle during the fall and winter. Between 1878 and 1885, in partnership with a brother, Ike Pryor delivered as many as 45,000 cattle annually to northern railheads, ranges, and Indian reservations. In 1885 the Pryor brothers moved 20,000 head of cattle to free range in Colorado just as the oversupplied market crashed. They sold out to an Ohio syndicate, the final price to be determined by the spring roundup, but the winter of 1886–87 decimated their herd. The brothers were left penniless and dissolved the partnership. On his reputation as a cattleman, Pryor borrowed $70,000 from Evans, Snider, and Buel Livestock Commission Company of St. Louis. He used the money to invest in and became president of the Texas and Colorado Land and Cattle Company, which leased lands and ran cattle entirely in Indian Territory. When the blockade of Cuba was lifted at the end of the Spanish-American War, Pryor shipped live cattle on speculation to Havana for spot sale and earned a considerable profit. With revenue from these enterprises, he invested in Evans, Snider, and Buel in 1901 and became vice president in charge of Texas operations. About the same time he bought 100,000 acres of Zavala County ranchland for $1.40 an acre, stocked it with 10,000 cattle, and named it the 77 Ranch. In 1908 he founded the nearby town of La Pryor. Pryor was director (1887–90) and president (1906–08) of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas, president of the Texas Livestock Association in 1907, and president of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress at Denver in 1908. He also presided over the National Livestock Shippers' Protective League in 1915 and the American National Livestock Association in 1917–19. In 1909 he organized and accepted the presidency of City National Bank of San Antonio. He married Sarah M. Rapp of San Antonio in 1878. They had two sons and one daughter. After Sarah's death he married Myra (Stafford) Early of Columbus in 1893. Pryor died in San Antonio on September 24, 1937.

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Mujeres Por La Raza

1973

Mujeres Por La Raza, the women's caucus within the Raza Unida Party , represented the merging of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism and advanced the political interests of Chicanas during the Chicano movement. Its development corresponded with the rise of the Chicana feminist movement in Texas. Women had belonged to the Raza Unida Party from its beginning at the county level with Ciudadanos Unidos in Zavala County in 1969. The group elected Luz Gutiérrez as its first Raza Unida county chair in January 1970. At the founding state convention in October 1971 in San Antonio, thirty-one of 104 attendees were women, and Evey Chapa helped write the party platform, which asserted the significance of La Mujer , La Familia, and equality for women. That the platform provided for a state executive committeewoman and for equal rights for women should probably be attributed to Chapa. Several women-in addition to the state committeewoman-held leadership positions at the Texas and national levels of the Raza Unida Party. Virginia Múzquiz, who ran for the Texas legislature in 1964, served as Raza Unida Party national chair from 1972 to 1974, and María Elena Martínez was the last Texas chair (1976–78). Nevertheless, sexism permeated the organization, and most of the Raza Unida Party's leaders and candidates were male. Even while women fought for inclusion in the party leadership, some men in Raza Unida considered women "groupies" or hangers-on. However, women in the Raza Unida Party believed that since local organizing efforts were carried out by women, they should assume leadership roles. Consequently, in 1973 women decided to form the Mujeres Por La Raza caucus to obtain leadership positions for women in the Raza Unida Party and to elect Chicanas to office. Raza Unida Party activist Ines Hernández Tovar has credited Ino Alvárez, Evey Chapa, and Marta Cotera as founders of Mujeres. Mujeres largely organized through Conferencias de Mujeres Por La Raza Unida. They held conferences on August 4, 1973, in San Antonio; on September 19, 1973, in Corpus Christi; and on December 1, 1973, in Crystal City. The first conference referred to itself as "la primera conferencia politica/educativa de Chicanas Activas en el Movimiento Pro-Raza Unida en Tejas." The conference program was in Spanish. Organizers included Chelo Avila, Evey Chapa, and Irma Mireles (San Antonio); Marta Cotera (Crystal City); and Juana Bustamante y Luera (Laredo). Sessions included "State and Local Political Structure"; "How to Organize in Rural, Semi-Rural Communities"; and "How to Organize in Urban Areas." María L. de Hernández , an orator since the 1930s, facilitated one workshop. Attendees passed a resolution condemning the use of public funds for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame . Apparently at the same event they also passed a resolution against "unwarranted acts of violence and death at the hands of law enforcement agents," a reference to the death of Santos Rodríguez , a Dallas youth killed by the police. On September 19, 1973, Mujeres sponsored a conference at Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School in Corpus Christi to "help educate the Mexican American women in the local community and surrounding areas in religious, political, and educational involvement." Topics included "Consciousness and Women's Development"; women in education; community organizing; and how to run a campaign. Múzquiz, Zavala county chair at the time, was a speaker. Mujeres also organized in their own localities. They could be found in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Laredo, Corpus Christi, and the rural and semi-rural communities of Crystal City, Temple, and Mercedes. High school and university students were also involved. La Delegación de Mujeres del Colegio Jacinto Treviño presented resolutions in support of the Farah strike , the National Farm Workers Union, and the right to bear arms in self-defense. Mujeres also battled racism and classism among Anglo women. They obtained the Texas Women's Poli

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The Bosque-Larios Expedition

1675

(April 30 - June 12, 1675) 
 In the 16th century, northern Mexico was torn by strife as the Indian inhabitants resisted Spanish efforts to enslave them. A century later, wealthy humanitarian Antonio Balcarcel set out to invoke justice and help missionaries Christianize the land. 
 In the spring of 1675, Balcarcel sent out an armed expedition under Fernando del Bosque to accompany Fray Juan de Larios on a mission north of the Rio Grande. Also in the party was Fray Dionisio de San Buenventura, an army chaplain. Entering Texas at a site near present Eagle Pass, the expedition marched almost to the present site of San Antonio. 
 Three days after entering Texas, when they were in camp on the Nueces, about nine miles southwest of present Uvalde, they set up a portable altar. The expeditionaries gathered with some 1,172 Indians to hear Fray Larios chant the Mass. Later Fray Larios baptized 55 infants and instructed the adult Indians so that they might be baptized at a future time. 
 The celebration at the Nueces on May 16, 1675, is known as the earliest recorded occasion of a high (sung) Mass in Texas. Missionary activity that began on that day eventually brought about the founding of the Texas mission system. (1975)

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C.S.A. Camp Nueces

1862

Founded April 1862 near this site, to guard vital traffic as it crossed the Nueces on the San Antonio-Eagle Pass Road. A post of the Confederacy's frontier regiment, under Col. James M. Norris. Its duty was to see that cotton got through to Mexico and munitions, medicines and factory goods came north to supply the Confederacy. One of the chain of posts a day's horseback ride apart, on line from Red River to Rio Grande. Never able to relax, in constant danger of Indian raids; short of food, horses and guns, Nueces (like other frontier camps) had none of war's glory and more than its share of hardships.
 Located in Zavala County, created in 1858 and named for Lorenzo de Zavala. This is one of 10 counties to commemorate colonizers. Of the 254 counties, 42 have Indian, French or Spanish names. 12 honor Washington and other American patriots. 96 were named for 1836-1846 heroes of the Republic of Texas (including 15 who died in the Alamo). 23 have names of other early statesmen. 11 honor U.S. leaders in the campaign to annex Texas. 10 honor state jurists, ministers, educators, statesmen, historians. 36 are named for leading men of the southern Confederacy. 14 have names from local geography. (1983)

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Kincaid Ranch and Hotel

1905

William Davis Kincaid, founder of the Kincaid Ranch, learned the cattle business as a young man in West Texas. In 1905 Kincaid brought his family to land he purchased southeast of Uvalde, in Uvalde and Zavala Counties. Before his death in 1914, Kincaid served as President of the Unvalde National Bank and the Uvalde School Board. In 1927, his wife and children built the Kincaid Hotel at the intersection of North and Getty Streets in Uvalde in his honor. During the area's ranching heyday, the hotel served as the business hub and social center of the Uvalde area, and ranchers from Texas and surrounding states often made "The Kincaid" their area headquarters. (2008)

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