Hidalgo County, Texas
Gerhardt, Karen / Santa Ana III, Rod / Santa Ana, Rod III![Hidalgo County, Texas](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/206/20608846/CHSBZCOP0320608846.jpg)
Hidalgo County, located in the heart of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, is a contentious land of impossible contrasts: tropical sunsets and swaying palm trees, rare birds and javelina, cactus and mesquite, soft breezes and broiling sunshine-and hurricanes. Spanish colonists settled here in 1749, receiving huge land grants in exchange for their labor and their loneliness. One hundred years later, a Scotsman named McAllen came to work in a riverfro...