Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Part I: Frontier Outpost, 1700–1716
  • 1. Finding the Gateway
  • 2. The Mission Builders
  • 3. New Spiritual Conquests
  • 4. The Flying Company
  • 5. Harvesters in the Vineyard
  • 6. From Thorns of Paganism
  • 7. Stranger from the Wilderness
  • 8. With Sword and Cross
  • 9. A Plan for Texas
  • 10. The French Cavalier
  • 11. Night of Terror
  • 12. Back to the Tejas
• Part II: Mother of Missions, 1716–1772
  • 13. Padre Olivares’ Dream
  • 14. Contraband and Frustration
  • 15. Miracle in the Montes
  • 16. Changing of the Guard
  • 17. The Double Standard
  • 18. The Islanders
  • 19. Up the Río Grande
  • 20. A Cross to Bear
  • 21. New Roads to Texas
  • 22. To the Meeting of the Rivers
  • 23. Brink of Sacrifice
  • 24. Providences of 1756
  • 25. Ill Wind from the Plains
  • 26. Missions in the Canyon
  • 27. Isle of the Malaguitas
  • 28. The Savage Frontier
  • 29. New Line of Defense
  • 30. End of an Era
• Part III: Presidio of the Line: After 1772
  • 31. Sword above the Cross
  • 32. Padre Morfi’s Visit
  • 33. Fading of the Missions
  • 34. Death to the Gachupines
  • 35. Bugle at Dawn
  • 36. Decade of the Republic
  • 37. Army of Chihuahua
  • 38. Closing the Gateway
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

ROBERT S. WEDDLE is an award-winning historian and the author of more than a dozen books on the Spanish and French colonial history of Texas and the Gulf Coast.

Reviews

San Juan Bautista is one of the most interesting and rewarding books on a Spanish borderland topic to appear in recent years. It is highly recommended.
*Journal of the West*