While maps might have indicated that New Spain included much of what is now Texas, the Spanish, in fact, rarely controlled ...

An American trader and filibuster, Philip Nolan, enters northeast Texas to hunt for wild horses. Spanish troops from Nacogdoches capture Nolan and his party. To ward off other encroachments ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a settlement near Beaumont in southeast Texas known as Gladys City – a collection of small businesses and primitive shacks where ...