Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Preface vii
Introduction 1
1 Spanish Colonial Texas 11
2 "A Fine Country with Broad Plains-The Most Beautiful in New Spain": Views of Land and Nature in Colonial San Antonio 35
3 Forgotten Founders: The Military Settlers of Eighteenth-Century San Antonio de Béxar 53
4 "To the Last Drop of Our Blood": Defending King and Empire in San Antonio 67
5 The Saltillo Fair and Its San Antonio Connections 79
6 Why Urbano and Maria Trinidad Can't Get Married: Social Relations in Late Colonial San Antonio 93
7 "Buena gana tenía de ir a jugar": The Recreational World of Early San Antonio, Texas, 1718-1845 119
8 Discovering the Tejano Community in "Early" Texas 139
9 Rebellion on the Frontier 161
10 The Colonization and Independence of Texas: A Tejano Perspective 181
Bibliographic Essay 199
Index 215