Title: The forgotten sacrifices of Tejanos in Texas' fight
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Content: Land that  had been in Tejano hands for generations was soon transferred to Anglos,  often through threat or out right fraud." From 1836 until Texas statehood a decade later,  Tejano communities in Victoria, Refugio, Goliad and other places were subjugated  by Anglo settlers, Montejano wrote. In 1839, 100 Tejano families were forced  to abandon their homes in Nacogdoches and flee south. Land speculators benefitted by making quick, cheap  real estate buys from Tejanos driven from their land. According to state land records dating from 1837  to 1842,13 "American" buyers purchased 1.4 million acres of land from 358  Mexican owners, Montejano wrote. Even such heroes of the revolt as Juan Seguin  were not exempt. As mayor of San Antonio in 1840, he grieved over the treatment  of Tejanos by Anglo newcomers. "Could I leave them defenseless, exposed to the  assaults of foreigners, who, on the pretext that they were Mexicans, treated  them worse than brutes?" Seguin wrote. In 1842, after numerous death threats,  Seguin left his native San Antonio for exile in Mexico.