Las Tejanas: 300 Years of HistoryWinner, Texas Reference Source Award, Reference Round Table, Texas Library Association, 2003 T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2004 Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute