San Antonio College Library

This book traces the events in Texas from 1835 to 1859 when Indian tribes who were living within close proximity to the emigrant white man were removed beyond the frontier to make room for another civilization.

Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information about the locations and lifeways of Texas's Native peoples. Using recent translations of these expedition diaries and...

Recreates history and culture of the Texas Indian in pen and ink drawings accompanied by a series of fictional narratives.

Author David La Vere offers a complete chronological and cultural history of Texas Indians from twelve thousand years ago to the present day. He presents a unique view of their cultural history before and after European arrival, examining Indian interactions-both peaceful and violent-with Europeans, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans.

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition.?Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite...