Each day Antonio's Mama tries to get everyone to sit down together to eat, but someone is always busy elsewhere, until the family celebrates a new arrival.

Based on official Spanish expedition diaries, a fascinating account of the daily routes taken and the Indigenous tribes, terrain, and wildlife encountered. Mapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768. Foster...

Ryu is a fish market employee by day, and a contract killer by night. David is a Spaniard who runs a Tokyo wine shop. David's girlfriend has recently committed suicide. Her father hires a hit man to kill David, believing he is responsible. The assassin turns out to be Ryu, and she falls for the man she has been sent to eliminate. Will David learn of his new love's secret intent? Will Ryu be able to get out of her deadly contract? The sounds of the...

Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government.

Lists alphabetically the individuals who received land grants in the Spanish Province of Texas or subsequently in the Mexican State of Coahuila and Texas. Includes the name of the original grantee, date of title, amount of land received, present location by county, and the colony to which the grantee belonged; or if he was not a member of any colony, the name of the special commissioner appointed to give him possession of his land.

In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of Phaedra's will have surprising results.

The story follows the fortunes of the Apodaca family from Spanish conquest through the late 1800s, as each generation struggles to survive in a harsh and bloody land. Ride with Miguel Apodaca as he deserts, recoiling from the gruesome atrocities of Don Juan de Onate's conquistadors, and meets lovely Summer Grass - an escaped captive girl of the Comanche.

"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...