Wave upon wave of newcomers has penetrated the semiarid plains of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Among the settlers and sojourners along the Rio Grande in the mid-eighteenth century were the founders of Laredo, who came seeking survival and permanence in that chaparral country.
Established in 1755 as an outpost of New Spain, Laredo, like other borderlands towns, has periodically been buffeted by powerful outside forces that upset the stable society and family unity characteristic of the early "villa." Unlike some other border communities, though, it has maintained a prominent...

Within the American Catholic Church the Mexican American legacy is the longest, as is their struggle for full acceptance in the institutional church. In this volume three historians examine religious history, focusing on Mexican American faith communities. Originally published in 1994.

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 Bahia Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas.