San Elizario: Spanish Presidio to Texas County Seat

by Wilbert H. Timmons and Rick Hendricks

This first documented history of San Elizario in the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods to 1900, utilizes Spanish and Mexican sources, particularly the Juarez Archive. It reveals that Spanish officials constructed this 1200 square foot fortress primarily to administer an Apache peace colony, in time the largest on the northern frontier. In the Mexican period the presidio spawned a town that later became San Elizario. With the termination of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874042429
• ISBN13: 9780874042429
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Texas Western Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 7.4"