Winner, Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Winner, Texas Catholic Historical Society, 2003
Finalist: Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for Book Making the Most Significant Contribution to Knowledge, Texas Institute of Letters, 2004

The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these key...