HISTORICAL HERITAGE OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE.
Waco: Texian Press, 1966. xvii,292pp. Frontis. portrait of Jose Escandon. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Genealogy chart. Appendices. Endpaper & text maps. Red cloth. Revised edition of the 1937 original. Bright, fine copy. Review copy with review slip and publication announcement laid in. The author, a scholar of the Lower Rio Grande, published a number of treatises on the area. This volume is an in-depth study of Spanish exploration, subjugation, and colonization of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. There is information on Jose Escandon, Count of Sierra Gorda who is considered the father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Contains material on the development of the region’s towns and ranches under Spanish, Mexican, and Texas authorities. The endpaper map shows the routes of the first Spanish expedition to the Rio Grande in 1747.