Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-196) and index.
Summary:
With more than 160 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells stories from the Coahuiltecan Indians and Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the cattlemen and wildcatters who conquered the brush country. Six centuries of exciting and entertaining history thoroughly reasearched.
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