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  • The Gatekeeper

    Nemesio Salcedo and the North American West

    by Bradley Folsom ...
    Series series Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
    From 1802 to 1813, Nemesio Salcedo served as commandant general of the Spanish Internal Provinces, making him the preeminent military and civil authority over a roughly 1.5 million square mile region that stretched from the western bank of the Mississippi River to the eastern border of modern California and south to what is today north-central Mexico. As commandant general, Salcedo’s duty was to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Son of Vengeance

    Searching for the Legendary Apache Rafael

    by Bradley Folsom ...
    Since the early 1800s, the violent exploits of “El Indio” Rafael through the settlements of northern New Spain have become the stuff of myth and legend. For some, the fabled Apache was a hero, an indigenous Robin Hood who fought oppressive Spaniards to help the dispossessed and downtrodden. For others, he was little more than a merciless killer. In Son of Vengeance, Bradley Folsom sets out to find ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande

    Borderland Animal Fights at the Turn of the Century

    by Bradley Folsom ...
    How the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome appeared on the Texas frontier. From 1895 to 1913, promoters on the Texas-Mexico border imported a variety of large mammals from around the world to pit them against one another in interspecies combat. Lions fought bears, an elephant took on a bull, and one promoter released a tiger, a bull, and a bear into the same cage at the same time. Human combatants ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arredondo

    Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain

    by Bradley Folsom ...
    In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Dead March

    A History of the Mexican-American War

    by Peter Guardino ...
    Winner of the Bolton-Johnson PrizeWinner of the Utley PrizeWinner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History“The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians…in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue…Studded with arresting insights and convincing observations.”—James Oakes, New York Review of Books ... Read more

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  • Spanish Texas, 1519–1821

    Revised Edition

    by Donald E. Chipman, Harriet Denise Joseph ...
    Series series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    This revised and expanded edition of the authoritative history of Spanish Texas features significant new discoveries throughout.Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or ... Read more

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  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • War of a Thousand Deserts

    Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

    by Brian DeLay ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called the barbarians” descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern ... Read more

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  • Peace Came in the Form of a Woman

    Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

    by Juliana Barr ...
    Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in ... Read more

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  • Testimonios

    Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848

    by Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz ...
    When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, ... Read more

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  • Faces of Béxar

    Early San Antonio and Texas

    by Jesús F. De la Teja ...
    Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of TexasFaces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. A new bibliographic essay on early San Antonio and Texas history rounds out the ... Read more

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