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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, Missions Concepcion, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano and Espada. Discover and explore the importance of this critical part of America's history. The Alamo has come to symbolize courage and sacrifice for the cause of Liberty. Presidio La Bahia (Goliad), El Camino Real de Los Tejas. The Goliad Massacre contributed greatly to the independence of the Republic of Texas. El Camino Real fostered frontier settlement...
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Here is a book that brings vividly to life all the romance and glory of early Texas, and the rigors of the Franciscan Fathers who journeyed over the burning desert and barren wastes of mesquite and cactus, enduring famine and thirst and the hostility of the savage Indian tribes, to place the Cross and the royal standard of Spain on the soil of the New World. Only lately have historians come to realize how deeply the foundations of Christianity were...
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