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Author León, Alonso de, approximately 1610-1661, author.

Title General Alonso de León's expeditions into Texas, 1686-1690 / edited and translated by Lola Orellano Norris
Edition First edition
Published College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; number forty-one
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 41.
Contents List of illustrations -- Sigla and archival location of the manuscripts -- Introduction -- Archival records and the exploration of Texas: The study of archival records of the colonial Southwest -- The earliest exploration of Texas -- General Alonso de León's five expeditions to Texas -- The expedition diaries -- Transcription of the Spanish manuscripts: Transcription methodology -- Manuscript 86-a -- Manuscript 87-a -- Manuscript 88-a -- Manuscript 89-b -- Manuscript 90-b -- Manuscript 90-d -- The English translations: Translation methodology -- English translation of manuscript 86-a -- English translation of manuscript 87-a -- English translation of manuscript 88-a -- English translation of manuscript 89-b -- English translation of manuscript 90-b -- English translation of manuscript 90-d -- Summary and conclusions
Summary In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de Le?n led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has identified sixteen manuscript copies of de Le?n?s meticulously kept expedition diaries. These documents hold major importance for early Texas scholarship. Some of these early manuscripts have been known to historians, but never before have all sixteen manuscripts been studied. In this interdisciplinary study, Norris transcribes, translates, and analyzes the diaries from two different perspectives. The historical analysis reveals that frequent misinterpretations of the Spanish source documents have led to substantial factual errors that have persisted in historical interpretation for more than a century. General Alonso de Le?n?s Expeditions into Texas is the first presentation of these important early documents and provides new vistas on Spanish Texas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Includes original Spanish texts and their translations into English
Print version record
Subject León, Alonso de, approximately 1610-1661 -- Translations into English
León, Alonso de, approximately 1610-1661 -- Manuscripts
León, Alonso de, approximately 1610-1661 -- Travel -- Texas
SUBJECT León, Alonso de, approximately 1610-1661 fast
Subject Manuscripts, Mexican -- 17th century
Explorers -- Texas -- Diaries
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Foreign Language Study / Spanish.
History / Latin America / Mexico.
Discoveries in geography
Explorers
Manuscripts, Mexican
Travel
SUBJECT Texas -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
Texas -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources
Subject Texas
Genre/Form Electronic books
Diaries
History
Manuscripts
Sources
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Norris, Lola Orellano, 1957- translator, editor.
ISBN 1623495415
9781623495411