Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios - Hardcover
by Tim Seiter
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477332801ISBN-10:1477332804UPC:9781477332801Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:State & Local, United StatesSize:9.14 x 6.07 x 1.27 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC42KQ4M7A
Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios
A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast.
In 1775, Spanish King Carlos III ordered the capture of American pelicans for his wildlife park in Madrid. The command went to the only Spanish fort on the Texas coast--Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía in present-day Goliad. But the overworked soldiers stationed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477332801ISBN-10:1477332804UPC:9781477332801Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:State & Local, United StatesSize:9.14 x 6.07 x 1.27 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC42KQ4M7A
Tim Seiter is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Tyler.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
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