Texas History: Time-traveling back to the first capital of Spanish Texas
Texas History: Time-traveling back to the first capital of Spanish Texas Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman © Michael Barnes/American-Statesman “Los Adaes: The First Capital of Spanish Texas” (Texas A&M University Press) Established Texas history moves backward and forward from the middle of the 19th century. By this, I mean that storytellers and historians, many of them white, for years concentrated on a period of time between the organized arrival of Anglo-Americans in the 1820s and the close of the Texas-Indian wars in the 1870s. Francis X. Galán’s new bo...
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