Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information about the locations and lifeways of Texas's Native peoples. Using recent translations of these expedition diaries and journals, along with discoveries from ongoing archaeological investigations, William C. Foster here assembles the most complete account ever...
Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca an...
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas
In 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 Historia de Nuevo Leon was not published until 1909, it has since been acclaimed as the key contemporary document for any historical study of Spanish colonial Texas.
This book offers the only accurate and annotated English translation of Chapa's...
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas
In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed ...
"The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River" presents the definitive English translation of Nicolas de La Salle's diary account of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's 1682 discovery expedition of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This previously unknown manuscript copy was discovered recently in the collection of rare books in the Texas State Archives. It provides the most complete and authoritative account available of this historic North American adventure and territorial claim. By careful cross- document analysis, Foster projects an extended...
"The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River" presents the definitive English translation of Nicolas de La Salle's diary account of Rene-Robert C...
William C. Foster's The Last 6,000 Years of Climate and Culture Change in North America is a prequel to his Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900 - 1600 published in 2012. This new effort covers a time period during the Middle and Late Holocene from ca. 4000 BC to AD 1800 during which the Earth's temperature oscillated causing major changes in the lifeways of the inhabitants of this planet as it does today.
William C. Foster's The Last 6,000 Years of Climate and Culture Change in North America is a prequel to his Climate and Culture Change in North Americ...
