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By Robert S. Weddle

In their efforts to claim dominion over great reaches of the (now united states) Southwest within the 17th century, the Spanish equipped a sequence of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic destinations. some of the most very important of those was once San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, situated on the present-day website of Guerrero in Coahuila, Mexico.

Despite its value because the major access aspect into Spanish Texas through the colonial interval, San Juan Bautista was once commonly forgotten till the 1st e-book of this publication in 1968. Weddle's narrative is an interesting chronicle of the numerous non secular, army, colonial, and commerical expeditions that undergone San Juan and a useful addition to wisdom of the Spanish borderlands. It gained the Texas Institute of Letters Amon G. Carter Award for most sensible Southwest heritage in 1969.

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