The area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River, which included Zavala County, became disputed territory known as the Wild Horse Desert, where neither the Republic of Texas nor the Mexican government had clear control.
Romanticism: The Romantic Age. Romanticism was a movement in literature, art, and music that emphasized feeling over thought. In many ways it was a reaction to The Enlightenment, or at least it was a reaction against the philosophic notion that human actions were guided by the inexorable forces of economics, sociology, and physics.
An intellectual movement that flourished in Europe between the middle of the 18th and 19th centuries, romanticism was complexly implicated in the history of its age, an age in which philosophers, artists, writers, and composers responded with fervor to the forces of nationalism that were sweeping Europe, but rejected the notions of the Enlightenment ...