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The San Sabá Mission : Spanish pivot in Texas
- Title
- The San Sabá Mission : Spanish pivot in Texas / by Robert S. Weddle ; drawings by Mary Nabers Prewit.
- Author
- Weddle, Robert S.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F394.S27 W43 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Spanish approach to the occupation of eighteenth-century Texas embraced the triad of mission, presidio, and settlement. In founding communities, Franciscan missionaries sought to convert the natives to Christianity and make them productive Spanish citizens. By midcentury, however, change was in the offing." "The turning point was the San Saba Mission disaster and the ensuing military campaign to punish the Indians responsible. In 1758, the mission, near present-day Menard, was destroyed with the loss of several lives, including two of the missionaries, less than a year after its founding. In The San Saba Mission Robert S. Weddle examines the factors that led to this tragedy and its influence on the reshaping of frontier policy, as well as the residual effects not only on the immediate Spanish settlements but on the area's development as a whole."--Jacket.
- Subject
- San Sabá Mission > History
- San Sabá Mission
- To 1846
- Spaniards > Texas > Menard Region > History > 18th century
- Indians of North America > Missions > History > Texas > Menard Region > 18th century
- Land settlement > Texas > History > 18th century
- Colonisation intérieure > Texas > Histoire > 18e siècle
- Indians of North America > Missions
- Land settlement
- Spaniards
- Texas > History > To 1846
- Menard Region (Tex.) > History > 18th century
- Texas > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1846
- Texas
- Texas > Menard Region
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, c1964. With new introd.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and index.
- ISBN
- 0890969116
- 9780890969113
- LCCN
- 99038278
- OCLC
- ocm41711922
- 41711922
- SCSB-1143793
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library