Spanish colonial Texas -- "A fine country with broad plains -- the most beautiful in New Spain": views of land and nature in colonial San Antonio -- Forgotten founders: the military settlers of eighteenth-century San Antonio de Bexar -- "To the last drop of our blood": defending king and empire in San Antonio -- The Saltillo Fair and its San Antonio connections -- Why Urbano and Maria Trinidad can't get married: social relations in late colonial San Antonio -- "Buena gana tenia de ir a jugar": the recreational world of early San Antonio, Texas, 1718-1845 -- Discovering the Tejano community in "early" Texas -- Rebellion on the frontier -- The colonization and independence of Texas: a Tejano perspective -- Bibliographical essay.
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