Missionary San Antonio

Between 1718 and 1731, San Antonio would grow to almost 300 "vecinos," thanks to the establishment of four new missions and the "entrepreneurialism" of the soldiers stationed there, who defied Spanish import restrictions to blaze the first trade routes between Spanish Texas and Eastern North America.Selected BibliographyAlessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978).De La Teja, Jesús F., ed. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of...