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Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821. Spain claimed ownership of the region in 1519. Slave raids by Spaniards into what became Texas began in the 16th century and created an atmosphere of antagonism with Native Americans (Indians) which would cause endless difficulties for the Spanish in the future.
The book won the 1988 Frederick Jackson Turner Award. [4] Rodolfo O. de la Garza of the University of Texas at Austin stated that the work "is the most comprehensive and insightful history of Anglo-Mexican relations in Texas yet written." [5] de la Garza did argue that the book did not prove the theory the author intended. [6]
In his retirement, Navarro wrote several historical and political essays about Texas and San Antonio's role in the Mexican Independence movement for the San Antonio Ledger. Ranching occupied much of his time in later years, and he spent most of each spring, summer, and fall on the 6,000-acre (24 km 2 ) San Geronimo Ranch, rich grasslands near ...
Spanish control of Texas was followed by Mexican control of Texas, and it can be difficult to separate the Spanish and Mexican influences on the future state. The most obvious legacy is that of the language; every major river in modern Texas, including the Red River, which was baptized by the Spaniards as Colorado de Texas, has a Spanish or ...
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
Spanish Texas (1690−1821) — the Spanish colonial period in the history of Texas. It was located in northern Colonial Mexico , within the Viceroyalty of New Spain of the Spanish Empire . For the succeeding period, see Category: Mexican Texas .
The New York Review of Books. Frank, Ross (Fall 1993). "The Spanish Frontier in North America". The Journal of San Diego History. 39 (4) Hanger, Kimberly S. (Winter 1994). "Book Reviews: The Spanish Frontier in North America". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 35 (1): 121–123.
Spanish missions within the boundaries of what is now the U.S. state of Texas. The Spanish Missions in Texas comprise the many Catholic outposts established in New Spain by Dominican, Jesuit, and Franciscan orders to spread their doctrine among Native Americans and to give Spain a toehold in the frontier land.