San Antonio College Library

This fully revised and reorganized edition of Richard Townsend's study of the Aztecs presents an expanded view of their history and cultural achievement.

Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.

In the early 1700's, a half-Indian, half-Spanish girl grew up at Mission San Juan Bautista, just south of the Rio Grande River. She later returned to and became a leader of her Hasinai tribe in what became East Texas. The Texas county of Angelina is named for her.

Outlines the influence that Spanish rule had upon all aspects of Aztec life during the three hundred years after their conquest.