San Antonio College Library

A history of the Spanish in America in chronological format, with illustrative documents and comprehensive bibliography.

A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about evil and guilt.

Three essays revised and with a new prologue from the author's Great River ; the Rio Grande in North American history.

Highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768. The author draws upon the detailed diaries that each expedition kept of its route presenting a clear picture of where the Spanish explorers actually passed through Texas.

Based on extensive research in Spain, Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and California, Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard tells of the Spanish advance in the seventeenth century into northern Mexico and the Southwest, and of the American Indian response. Focusing on the Apache, Navaho, and neighboring nations, Jack Forbes reveals how long-standing, mutually beneficial relationships existing between the indigenous communities were upset by Spanish exploitation...

Examines the origins and legacies of a captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century, detailing a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence, with slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches,...