General Alonso de León's Expeditions into Texas, 1686-1690 - 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 General Alonso de León's Expeditions into Texas, 1686-1690 write by Lola Orellano Norris. This book was released on 2017-04-24. General Alonso de León's Expeditions into Texas, 1686-1690 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has identified sixteen manuscript copies of de León’s meticulously kept expedition diaries. These documents hold major importance for early Texas scholarship. Some of these early manuscripts have been known to historians, but never before have all sixteen manuscripts been studied. In this interdisciplinary study, Norris transcribes, translates, and analyzes the diaries from two different perspectives. The historical analysis reveals that frequent misinterpretations of the Spanish source documents have led to substantial factual errors that have persisted in historical interpretation for more than a century. General Alonso de León’s Expeditions into Texas is the first presentation of these important early documents and provides new vistas on Spanish Texas.
Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690
Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 - 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 Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 write by Juan Bautista Chapa. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This authoritative, annotated translation of the 17th century text is essential reading for historians of New Spain and Spanish Texas. In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de León, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a richly detailed history of Nuevo León for the years 1630 to 1690. Although his Historia de Nuevo León was not published until 1909, it has since been acclaimed as the key contemporary document for any historical study of Spanish colonial Texas. This book offers the only accurate and annotated English translation of Chapa's Historia. In addition to the translation, William C. Foster also summarizes the Discourses of Alonso de León (the elder), which cover the years 1580 to 1649. The appendix includes a translation of Alonso (the younger) de León's previously unpublished revised diary of the 1690 expedition to East Texas and an alphabetical listing of over 80 Indian tribes identified in this book. Chapa’s Historia lists the names and locations of over 300 Indian tribes. This information, together with descriptions of the vegetation, wildlife, and climate in seventeenth-century Texas, make this book essential reading for ethnographers, anthropologists, and biogeographers, as well as students and scholars of Spanish borderlands history.
Alonso de León's 1690 Expedition Diary Into Texas
Alonso de León's 1690 Expedition Diary Into Texas - 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 Alonso de León's 1690 Expedition Diary Into Texas write by Jana Dale McLain. This book was released on 2006. Alonso de León's 1690 Expedition Diary Into Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1690 expedition led by Alonso de León into present day Texas proved to be a pivotal journey that had lasting effects on the development of Spain's land north of the Rio Grande. This expedition established the first Catholic mission in the area. Also, LaSalle's abandoned settlement was burned, and several Frenchmen living among the Indians were captured and returned with the expedition party to Mexico. The bartering for the release of some of these Frenchmen resulted in a skirmish in which four native Indians were killed. In addition, De León chronicled a great amount of information about the land through which he traveled, leaving a lasting diary recording his experiences as well as offering a glimpse into the then unsettled lands in present day eastern Texas. The 1690 expedition diary exists in the form of six manuscripts, and their analysis is the focus of this thesis. No scholar has ever taken into consideration all six manuscripts when conducting research regarding this expedition, and therefore research conducted thus far is not thorough. A comparative analysis of these six manuscripts is undertaken in this thesis, and the manuscripts are classified as revised or unrevised. Foster (1997) was the first scholar to classify manuscripts of the 1690 expedition as unrevised and revised. He classified only the Beinecke manuscript as revised, but this thesis also incorporates two other revised manuscripts unknown to Foster, the Gilcrease 67.1 and Gilcrease 67.2. The unrevised manuscripts included in this study are the AGI, AGN, and BNMex manuscripts. Three semi-paleographic transcriptions of manuscripts of Alonso de León's 1690 expedition diary are also presented. The AGI and Beinecke manuscripts are transcribed and an in-depth comparative analysis of the unrevised and revised manuscripts is completed. This analysis presents the numerous discrepancies that exist between the two families of manuscripts. Also, a transcription of the Gilcrease 67.1 manuscript is included to present a document previously unknown to scholars. The findings of thisthesis should be of interest to scholars in many different fields of study who have interest in this time period and this region of the U.S. Southwest.
Itineraries of the De Leon Expeditions of 1689 and 1690
Itineraries of the De Leon Expeditions of 1689 and 1690 - 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 Itineraries of the De Leon Expeditions of 1689 and 1690 write by Alonso de León. This book was released on 1916. Itineraries of the De Leon Expeditions of 1689 and 1690 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690
Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 - 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 Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 write by Juan Bautista Chapa. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This authoritative, annotated translation of the 17th century text is essential reading for historians of New Spain and Spanish Texas. In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de León, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a richly detailed history of Nuevo León for the years 1630 to 1690. Although his Historia de Nuevo León was not published until 1909, it has since been acclaimed as the key contemporary document for any historical study of Spanish colonial Texas. This book offers the only accurate and annotated English translation of Chapa's Historia. In addition to the translation, William C. Foster also summarizes the Discourses of Alonso de León (the elder), which cover the years 1580 to 1649. The appendix includes a translation of Alonso (the younger) de León's previously unpublished revised diary of the 1690 expedition to East Texas and an alphabetical listing of over 80 Indian tribes identified in this book. Chapa’s Historia lists the names and locations of over 300 Indian tribes. This information, together with descriptions of the vegetation, wildlife, and climate in seventeenth-century Texas, make this book essential reading for ethnographers, anthropologists, and biogeographers, as well as students and scholars of Spanish borderlands history.
