{"product_id":"texas-and-northeastern-mexico-1630-1690-9780292717954","title":"Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de Leon, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a richly detailed history of Nuevo Leon for the years 1630 to 1690. Although his \u003ccite\u003eHistoria de Nuevo Leon \u003c\/cite\u003ewas not published until 1909, it has since been acclaimed as the key contemporary document for any historical study of Spanish colonial Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This book offers the only accurate and annotated English translation of Chapa's \u003ccite\u003eHistoria\u003c\/cite\u003e. In addition to the translation, William C. Foster also summarizes the \u003ccite\u003eDiscourses\u003c\/cite\u003e of Alonso de Leon (the elder), which cover the years 1580 to 1649. In the appendix, Foster includes a translation of Alonso (the younger) de Leon's previously unpublished revised diary of the 1690 expedition to East Texas and an alphabetical listing of over 80 Indian tribes identified in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Chapa was also an authority on the local Indians, and his \u003ccite\u003eHistoria\u003c\/cite\u003e lists the names and locations of over 300 Indian tribes. This information, together with descriptions of the vegetation, wildlife, and climate in seventeenth-century Texas, make this book essential reading for ethnographers, anthropologists, and biogeographers, as well as students and scholars of Spanish borderlands history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292717954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d","brand":"Juan Bautista Chapa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635439530140,"sku":"9780292717954","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_85d46687-629f-4e57-81e0-58d71e5606db.jpg?v=1603839551","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/texas-and-northeastern-mexico-1630-1690-9780292717954","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}