Since its first publication in 1991, this history of early San Antonio has won a 1992 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society and a Presidio La Bahía Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas.

Mexican Americans comprise the largest segment of Hispanics in the US, but are struggling for full acceptance in the Catholic Church. This is a history of this community, which argues that the Church will embrace the new challenge Hispanics present in the 21st century as it becomes more tolerant. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Wave upon wave of newcomers has penetrated the semiarid plains of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Among the settlers and sojourners along the Rio Grande in the mid–eighteenth century were the founders of Laredo, who came seeking survival and permanence in that chaparral country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Studies the political, ecclesiastical, and military history of the small borderland town