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That my friends, within the dots, is what Abel Rubio was alluding to. That was Rancho Alamito. Mark

  Rancho Alamito Here's another way of looking at what remained of Becerra's original tract of land. Yellow section is what was sold to Henry Koehler, blue section is what was conveyed. That blue section was conveyed to Antonia de la Garza. Uncolored portion is what I keep pointing to. That was Antonio's property, (rancho alamito), all 2,214 acres. Situated between Alamita Creek and Copano Creek. Mark

Here's Why it Matters Therefore, as a result, when Power awarded himself the 6,642 acres of land, he errored due to his ignorance. He no longer had empresario status. Therefore, the land you see in the picture provided is patently false, and inchoate. The picture adjacent is coming from the General Land Office that displays the very land grant he petitioned and was given approval for. If you note and zoom in, you'll see the date: September 29, 1834. You see the gray area, that's where Antonio's land was located circa 1875. He held proper title. James Power & Son's land was invalid. People, they weren't empresarios anymore.  Governor Veramendi made sure of it by nullifying their empresario contract by June 12th, 1834. Charlatan's... Mark

  Let's Call a Spade a Spade I'm going to keep saying it, till it sinks in. Here we go. If, which it is true, that James Power's grab of 6,642 acres around Copano and Alamita Creeks is inchoate (false), what does that make us (Becerra descendants)? What does it mean? Well, it logically entails that all that land would have been considered public land belong to Coahuila y Tejas. Now, presume no one did anything about it. It would have become public land belonging to the Republic of Texas. Assuming no one stepped in and snapped it up, it would have become Texas lands after the American-Mexican War. It's fine if the O'Connors wanted to purchase it. But they should have seen on the maps that Becerra's were on a large portion of it. Now, assuming that Becerra was never put on the maps because of treachery and deceit (which it was). Then, like the pinche O'Connors, Antonio could have claimed rights to it outright, because the family had been paying taxes on it for...

As Precise as Possible, as Precise as Precise can Get In the end, I've come up with an approximate area where I believe Antonio's property was located prior to the vigilante raids. Rubio states in his final chapter that it was located to the right of Copano Creek, where the three railroad scrips lay. As we discovered, Thomas O'Connor would eventually snap them up. Yes, they were vacant, but I also know that the original plat drawn by Snively in 1849, put the starting point of Becerra's property somewhere between Alamita and Copano Creek, this is what I believe. As we know now, Antonio was sitting on 2,214 acres in 1875. The other 3/4ths had been sold or gifted away. My idea as well as Rubio's idea of where it was located spans a few hundred yards apart. It would have been situated somewhere in-between where Rubio says it was and where I think it was. I'm posting two maps. The first one is an 1875 map, and the second one is from the General Land Office. In the 18...