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14. One way to reduce community grants in New Mexico was to buy derechos and then institute a partition lawsuit against landholders. 15. Sheriff sales of lands commonly favored Hispanic landholders in the Southwest. 16. New Mexico's physical isolation from larger urban and commercial centers of New Spain is one key reason for the rise of santero religious folk art. 17. After 1848, Tejanos broke away from their tradition as stockraisers. 18. By the 1830s, John Young was one of the leading merchants in Santa Fe who engaged in trade with Missouri. 19. The so-called Mexican trade at Matamoros-Brownsville depended on the talents and business skills of merchants, such as Jos San Roman, a Spanish immigrant who became very wealthy and eventually returned to Spain. 20. Tejano rancheros were known as fiesteros for hosting wedding celebrations that lasted a week. 21. The founder of the Democratic Party in South Texas was James B. Wells, a Texas-born lawyer. 22. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) were leading Protestant missionaries who worked among the Mexicans in Texas and northern Mexico in the second-half of the 19th century. 23. In the second half of the 19th century. Melinda Rankin, a noted Protestant missionary, educator, and writer came from the North to work with Mexicans in south Texas and adjacent communities in Mexico. 24. Political bosses in the Southwest engaged in corralling the vote by holding parties and marching their supporters to the poll on the day of the election. 25. Landholding in the new Southwest was important because land was the basis of wealth for many Hispanics and others.