Spanish Missions of Texas

Spanish Missions of Texas

Author: Byron Browne

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1467136301

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"After the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortaes in the sixteenth century, conquistadors and explorers poured into the territory of Nueva Espaana. The Franciscans followed in their wake but carved a different path through a harsh and often violent landscape. That heritage can still be found across Texas, behind weathered stone ruins and in the pews of ornate, immaculately maintained naves. From early structures in El Paso to later woodland sanctuaries in East Texas, these missions anchored communities and, in many cases, still serve them today. Author Byron Browne reconnoiters these iconic landmarks and their lasting legacy."


Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions

Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions

Author: Lee Panich

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0816530513

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Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions offers a holistic view on the consequences of mission enterprises and how native peoples actively incorporated Spanish colonialism into their own landscapes. An innovative reorientation spanning the northern limits of Spanish colonialism, this volume brings together a variety of archaeologists focused on placing indigenous agency in the foreground of mission interpretation.


The Spanish Missions of California

The Spanish Missions of California

Author: Megan Gendell

Publisher: Children's Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780531212400

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Describes the daily life of people who settled in the California missions, why the missions were built, and explores the reasons for the end of the mission era.


San Antonio Missions

San Antonio Missions

Author: Luis Torres

Publisher: Western National Parks Association

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781877856174

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Describes the history of the Spanish missions in the San Antonio, Texas, area, now preserved as the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.


San Juan Bautista

San Juan Bautista

Author: Robert S. Weddle

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0292785615

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Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978 In 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. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, Mexico. Despite its significance as the main entry point into Spanish Texas during the colonial period, San Juan Bautista was generally forgotten until the first publication of this book in 1968. Weddle's narrative is a fascinating chronicle of the many religious, military, colonial, and commerical expeditions that passed through San Juan and a valuable addition to knowledge of the Spanish borderlands. It won the Texas Institute of Letters Amon G. Carter Award for Best Southwest History in 1969.


Saving San Antonio

Saving San Antonio

Author: Lewis F. Fisher

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 159534781X

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Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.


The Spanish Frontier in North America

The Spanish Frontier in North America

Author: David J. Weber

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0300156219

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Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, here is a definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the volume focuses on both the Spaniards' impact on Native Americans and the effect of North Americans on Spanish settlers. "Splendid".--New York Times Book Review.


Voices from the San Antonio Missions

Voices from the San Antonio Missions

Author: Luis Torres

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780896723788

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Provides interviews with members of the San Antonio community who are involved in building, using, and preserving four historic Spanish colonial missions.


The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions

The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions

Author: Robert H. Jackson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 9004505261

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During the eighteenth century the Spanish Bourbon monarchs attempted to transform Spanish America. This study analyses the efforts to transform frontier missions, and the consequences and particularly demographic consequences for the indigenous peoples that lived on the missions.


Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas

Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas

Author: Donald Eugene Chipman

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0292712316

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Provides biographical sketches of the men and women who discovered, explored, and settled Spanish Texas from 1528 to 1821, including profiles of religious figures, governors, pioneers, Indian agents, and army captains.