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Moses Austin’s Spanish Empresario Contract

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The Influence of Spanish Law in Texas

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Alcaldes as Local Magistrates in Spanish and Mexican Texas

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The Farmers Alliance Platform of 1886

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Los Adaes: The Forgotten Capital of Spanish Texas

The Bourbon Reforms in New Spain
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The Bourbon Reforms in New Spain

Map of American Indian Tribes in Texas in the 1700s
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Map of American Indian Tribes in Texas in the 1700s

The Mexican-American War and the Role of Texas (1846–1848)
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The Mexican-American War and the Role of Texas (1846–1848)

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