ABOUT THIS BOOK

Since its first publication in 1991, this history of early San Antonio has won a 1992 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society and a Presidio La Bahía Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Gerald E. Poyo is a professor of history at St. Mary's University.

Gilberto Hinojosa is a professor emeritus of history at University of the Incarnate Word.

REVIEWS

An absorbing social history of the lives of the intrepid settlers who rallied around their traditional institutions—mission centers, municipalities, and the military arm of the crown—to secure the northernmost frontier of New Spain and to convert the land, as much as they were capable, into a productive segment of the empire.... This volume merits a wide audience especially among social scientists engaged in providing meaning to the Mexican American community in Texas.

— New Mexico Historical Review

The exploration of the interrelationships among soldiers, civilian settlers, missionaries, and Indians in the San Antonio area is of special significance. This provides a refreshing approach for the study of early borderlands history, transcending the tendency among some historians to study these groups in isolation.

— Journal of Texas Catholic History and Culture

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Béxar: Profile of a Tejano Community, 1820-1832, by Jesús F. de la Teja and John Wheat
II. Forgotten Founders: The Military Settlers of Eighteenth-Century San Antonio de Béxar, by Jesús F. de la Teja
III. The Canary Islands Immigrants of San Antonio: From Ethnic Exclusivity to Community in Eighteenth-Century Béxar, by Gerald E. Poyo
IV. The Religious-Indian Communities: The Goals of the Friars, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa
V. Immigrants and Integration in Late Eighteenth-Century Béxar, by Gerald E. Poyo
VI. Indians and Their Culture in San Fernando de Béxar, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa and Anne A. Fox
VII. Independent Indians and the San Antonio Community, by Elizabeth A.H. John
Conclusion: The Emergence of a Tejano Community
Notes
Selective Bibliography on Spanish Texas, 1685-1821
Index