Hi Matt! First off, great video! I really enjoy watching this type of content, especially as a history buff and a fellow South Texan. Secondly, I want to thank you for purchasing my stock footage-I truly appreciate your support and business. Keep up the amazing work, my friend!
OK you messed up, before Spain came there was not much brush in south Texas, it was mainly grasslands and trees on creeks and rivers. The brush came with the cows and horses after they were brought to the new world.
As many people have mentioned, the landscape of South Texas has changed almost completely. I can remember when there were few cedars. Now they are everywhere, drying out the land.
It's interesting that @9:45 you say that "Very little has changed." Yet the video shows an axis deer which is native to India and has only been imported to Texas for probably less than 100 years. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimates that the axis deer population in Texas today is larger than the population in India. Must be something in the water. I did enjoy the video.
@4:55, this is not South Texas, nor anywhere in Texas for that matter. Those church ruins are in Mexico, not Texas. Those ruins are San Juan Parangaricutiro in the Mexican state of Michoacán, aka Parícutin Volcano.
I didn't say I shot that in Texas. But I am glad you have such a keen and critical eye. I appreciate you noticing the visual reference that I was trying to make.
Nah, He'll no. None taken. That's a good, keen eye. I respect that. Somebody who would notice that is actually paying attention. I can appreciate that and frankly, I respect it.
Back then the hillcountry had no cedar and and little in oaks,but cottonwood and cypress trees. Cattle out of Mexico pushed north brush brought seed trees. I've seen pictures from the 1800s and little brush to none,but many years of over grazing brought the brush stamped.
I was going to ask about the mesquite migration that I had heard about briefly years ago. So it wasn't a dream. I'm definitely a witness to no grass growing under mesquites.
@sascotttx5145 there was multiple generations of mesquite, when I was a kid in south Texas in the early 1960tys I saw mesquite trees that were probably well over one years old,and their are pictures of the Texas hillcountry before the cedar came. But I figure by the late 1700s and very early 1800s mesquite and hysachie were headed north of the Rio grande. But if you go back to jaun de Leon the first explorer of Texas,called south Texas the red desert and maps stated south Texas as the red desert up thru the early 1900s. But there was obvious pockets of native brush on area's on the Nueces River because the karankkawas how ever spelled < used these plants for every day health as per 8balls in boyscouts back in the late 60tys early 70s where camp karankkawa once was,lake mathis.
Comanche used to burn the territories to keep trees off the plains so Buffalo could graze. Bison are not fond of forests. No grass and too many predators.
gran trabajo y video siempre he pensado que el noreste de Mexico coahuila- nuevo leon-tamaulipas y texas comparten mucho a diferencia de el resto de los dos paises...abrazo desde Monterrey!
This is true. They really did and that is evolution of the human DNA I suppose. That is a fair point you make. I think it bears to prove the point that finding a true, blue honest to goodness "native" would be nearly impossible 500 years removed. That would require a lot of marital logistics lol
@jessietovar9921 Ya, some of them look very Native most look mixed Native and Spanish, and a few of them are full blooded Spaniard with green or blue eyes and very light skin
I am from South Texas,,, my Mom and her siblings have green hazel eyes, grandpa from Mexico had blue eyes…. My Dad also from The Valley is tanned, has the bump at the top of his nose… where does that nose dna come from? Just curious. Thanks
Hi Matt!
First off, great video! I really enjoy watching this type of content, especially as a history buff and a fellow South Texan. Secondly, I want to thank you for purchasing my stock footage-I truly appreciate your support and business. Keep up the amazing work, my friend!
Absolutely! Great stuff. I use Envato as a supplement fairly often. I am always looking for a good stock video. Good work!
OK you messed up, before Spain came there was not much brush in south Texas, it was mainly grasslands and trees on creeks and rivers. The brush came with the cows and horses after they were brought to the new world.
Before the cattle & horse droppings, there was no mesquite bushes/trees. The description was grass up to a horses belly as far as you could see.
As many people have mentioned, the landscape of South Texas has changed almost completely. I can remember when there were few cedars. Now they are everywhere, drying out the land.
It's interesting that @9:45 you say that "Very little has changed." Yet the video shows an axis deer which is native to India and has only been imported to Texas for probably less than 100 years. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimates that the axis deer population in Texas today is larger than the population in India. Must be something in the water.
I did enjoy the video.
@4:55, this is not South Texas, nor anywhere in Texas for that matter. Those church ruins are in Mexico, not Texas. Those ruins are San Juan Parangaricutiro in the Mexican state of Michoacán, aka Parícutin Volcano.
I didn't say I shot that in Texas. But I am glad you have such a keen and critical eye. I appreciate you noticing the visual reference that I was trying to make.
@mattpierceblog You are welcome. However no disrespect was meant. Be safe.
Nah, He'll no. None taken. That's a good, keen eye. I respect that. Somebody who would notice that is actually paying attention. I can appreciate that and frankly, I respect it.
@mattpierceblog Thank you. Be safe.
Nowadays Texas is becoming Mexico. So sad. 😢
Back then the hillcountry had no cedar and and little in oaks,but cottonwood and cypress trees. Cattle out of Mexico pushed north brush brought seed trees. I've seen pictures from the 1800s and little brush to none,but many years of over grazing brought the brush stamped.
I was going to ask about the mesquite migration that I had heard about briefly years ago. So it wasn't a dream. I'm definitely a witness to no grass growing under mesquites.
@sascotttx5145 there was multiple generations of mesquite, when I was a kid in south Texas in the early 1960tys I saw mesquite trees that were probably well over one years old,and their are pictures of the Texas hillcountry before the cedar came. But I figure by the late 1700s and very early 1800s mesquite and hysachie were headed north of the Rio grande. But if you go back to jaun de Leon the first explorer of Texas,called south Texas the red desert and maps stated south Texas as the red desert up thru the early 1900s. But there was obvious pockets of native brush on area's on the Nueces River because the karankkawas how ever spelled < used these plants for every day health as per 8balls in boyscouts back in the late 60tys early 70s where camp karankkawa once was,lake mathis.
Comanche used to burn the territories to keep trees off the plains so Buffalo could graze. Bison are not fond of forests. No grass and too many predators.
gran trabajo y video siempre he pensado que el noreste de Mexico coahuila- nuevo leon-tamaulipas y texas comparten mucho a diferencia de el resto de los dos paises...abrazo desde Monterrey!
Gracias, neighbor!
Many of the Natives from South Texas mixed with the Spanish conquistadors and created the Tejano people you see today in South Texas
This is true. They really did and that is evolution of the human DNA I suppose. That is a fair point you make. I think it bears to prove the point that finding a true, blue honest to goodness "native" would be nearly impossible 500 years removed. That would require a lot of marital logistics lol
Is that why they have a certain look? Some look very Mexican and then some look sorta European
@jessietovar9921 Ya, some of them look very Native most look mixed Native and Spanish, and a few of them are full blooded Spaniard with green or blue eyes and very light skin
I am from South Texas,,, my Mom and her siblings have green hazel eyes, grandpa from Mexico had blue eyes…. My Dad also from The Valley is tanned, has the bump at the top of his nose… where does that nose dna come from? Just curious. Thanks
They "mixed" or they were forced and SA'ed?
2:06 where is this
That's at a little place up near Bulverde, on the Guadalupe, if I remember right. I'll check and make sure but I think that's where they said it was.
Shoulda put some music of flaco Jimenez or Michael Salgado , it woulda been perfect with the images you had put up here 💯🎵🎶
For real! Maybe a little Augie Meyers in there, too..... Or some Ram Herrera 😂 yeah man! Thanks for watching!
Greetings From South of the Bend, on the Gulf
Yea nature came first. Now they wanted back. Tornado, hurricane,volcano,and earthquake. They wanted back.😊
“San Antonio De Valero”
You pronounced it incorrectly
I probably did. 😂
Go find the book 'Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos.'