Los Tejanos and the History of Texan Invasions Brainpower & Brownbags lecture series

Spencer Herrera, a Spanish professor at New Mexico State University, speaks on "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon Us: The New Mexico Folk Play Los Tejanos and the History of Texan Invasion," at noon on Wednesday, March 23, in the John Gaw Meem Room, 105 Washington Ave. (Enter via the museum's Washington entrance.) This Brainpower & Brownbags lecture is free and open to the public. 

Los Tejanos is a mid-19th-century folk play recounting the failed 1841 invasion  by Texans into New Mexico.

Only one manuscript is known to have survived; it was found in the 1930s by scholar Aurelio Espinosa in Chimayo.