Author : Robert S. Weddle
Release : 2010-07-22
Genre : History
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San Juan Bautista - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook San Juan Bautista write by Robert S. Weddle. This book was released on 2010-07-22. San Juan Bautista available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.