Bruce A Erickson
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xii, 335 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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English
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"Forged from Native American pathways, the Camino Real de los Tejas and its variants became an important transportation corridor during the Spanish colonial period of Texas. Following the explorations of Alonso de León, between 1686 and 1690, Spanish missionaries and soldiers began the earliest European settlements in Texas. Mexican territorial and early Anglo-American period immigrants to Texas also contributed much information about its people,...
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English
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Why a history of Coronado National Memorial? In some ways, history is the recording of events in a formal and factual way in order to gain an understanding of the past and present and, perhaps, to ascertain trends leading to the future. In that same manner, the present history of Coronado National Memorial reveals underlying trends, practices, and themes that have, since 1941, gained, at least, in venerability, and others, more ancillary, that have...