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4. Spanish Era
Byrd, Lesley, ed. The San Saba Papers: A Documentary Account of the Founding and Destruction of San Saba Mission. Translated by Paul D. Nathan. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 2000. CYP, RVS: F 394 .S27 S26 2000
Celiz, Francisco. Diary of the Alarcón Expedition into Texas: 1718-1719. Translated by Fritz Leo Hoffmann. Los Angeles, Calif.: Quivira Society, 1935. (Records founding of San Antonio and the mission of the Alamo. Author was a priest from Coahuila in New Spain [Mexico].) EVC: F 389 .C33 1935
Glass, Anthony. Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frontier, 1790-1810. Edited by Dan L. Flores. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. RGC: F 389 .G52 A33 1985
Jackson, Jack, ed. Imaginary Kingdom: Texas as Seen by the Rivera and Rubî Military Expeditions, 1727 and 1767. With annotations by William C. Foster. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1995. (Primary sources documents relating to these expeditions. Portions of the book are secondary source essays.) NRG, RGC: F 389 .R58 1995
Morfi, Juan Agustín. History of Texas, 1673-1779. 2 vols. Edited by Carlos E. Castañeda. Albuquerque, N.M.: Quivira Society, 1935. (Technically, a secondary source, but Father Morfi was a Franciscan missionary who was in Texas and observed the missions there in 1777-78. Provides insights into the life of the missions, villages, and presidios, as well as on Indian tribes. Much of what historians know about eighteenth-century Texas comes from this work. Manuscript probably written between 1778 and 1783.) NRG, RGC: F 389 .M72 1967
Navarro, José Antonio. Defending Mexican Valor in Texas: José Antonio Navarro's Historical Writings, 1853-1857. Edited by David R. McDonald and Timothy M. Matovina. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1995. (Reminiscences of an eyewtiness to the participation of San Antonio Tejanos during the Mexican struggle for independence from Spain in the second decade of the nineteenth century.) F 390 .N3813 1995
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery. The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike. Edited by Elliott Coues. 2 vols. New York: Dover Publications, 1987. (Pike's account of two military expeditions he commanded. Vol. 2 covers the second, in 1806-1807, to explore the upper reaches of the Arkansas and Red rivers. Recounts his capture by Spanish troops and later escorted trip through Texas and release into Louisiana.) RVS: F 592 .P6361987