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One who before Texas became part of the United States entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican government to settle a certain number of families in Texas in exchange for sizable grants of land.

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  • All season long, he called on every empresario of every bullring large and small from Tijuana to Cozumel.
  • It was arranged that the empresario for the Plaza Mexico would buy the giant bull from Button for Hernando to fight.
  • And so Hernando bought Carlos back from the empresario of the Plaza for two hundred pesos and a half bottle of Oaxacan mezcal.
  • Exitoso como empresario, salvó las Olimpiadas, y como gobernador de Massachusetts bajó los impuestos y estimuló la economía.
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