Product Description: This careful study of eighteenth-century cartography along the Gulf Coast presents a pair of essays that show a fascinating mix of cooperation and competition between Spain and France.A native Canadian, Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis explored much of the region around the Gulf in 1714 and 1717...read more

'Account of the Spanish expedition in 1759 to punish the Wichitas and allies for their massacre of San Saba Mission in present-day Menard County, Texas. It is based on the journal of one of the Spanish officers. It also discusses the internal political affairs of Spanish Texas following the expedition'--Provided by publisher.

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Product Description: The Spanish approach to the occupation of eighteenth-century Texas embraced the triad of mission, presidio, and settlement. In founding communities, Franciscan missionaries sought to convert the natives to Christianity and make them productive Spanish citizens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A vibrant account of the Spanish search for the French colony on the Texas coast (1685–89), Robert S. Weddle’s Wilderness Manhunt is an indispensable source on Spain’s “rediscovery” of the Gulf of Mexico’s northern coast...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Well-organized and clearly written, this volume, the third part of a history of the Gulf of Mexico in the Spanish colonial era, rests on a thorough integration of secondary publications with the author's archival research. The first part of series is Spanish Sea: Gulf of Mexico in North American discovery (1985); second part is The French thorn: rival explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762 (1991)'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations...read more

Product Description: A careful study of 18th century cartography along the Gulf Coast which reveal mix of cooperation and competition between Spain and France, heretofore portrayed exclusively as fierce rivals in the New World. Seventeen maps, man previously unpublished, are included...read more

Product Description: Three centuries after the French explorer La Salle was murdered in the Texas wilds, this volume presents translations of three obscure documents that broaden the view of the man and his exploits. The first non-Spanish effort to settle areas along the Gulf of Mexico is seen from the perspectives of La Salle's engineer; a Spanish pilot who searched for the French colony; and two French lads who, orphaned as a result of the Fort Saint-Louis massacre, lived first among the Texas Indians, then the Spaniards...read more

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