...Ray F. Broussard Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier . By Burton H. Sophie and Smith F. Todd . Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest . College Station : Texas A & M University Press , 2008 . Maps. Tables. Notes...

... of Los Adaes, its inhabitants built important networks with other communities in East Texas and beyond. Most interactions occurred at the local level, involving Caddo and other Native peoples as well as nearby Natchitoches. Adaeseños also maintained important connections with other settled parts of Texas...

... their viewpoint. With St. Louis they maintained friendship since this was their source of trade goods, including firearms. Against the inhabitants of Arkansas Post, who often invaded their lands to hunt and trap, they periodically resorted to hostilities—more often to rob than to kill. But at Natchitoches...

.... In this book Hodding Carter relates the history of the Camino Real , a road that ran northeastward from Saltillo, Mexico, to Natchitoches on the Red River. The author tells us in the first chapter that his narrative is essentially a tale of nearly 200 years of conflicting ambitions, cultures and faith...

... This aptly titled and richly detailed narrative works remarkably well as a case study. Although the number of Caddos thinned and groups amalgamated, Todd Smith deftly orchestrates all three multitribe Caddo confederacies—Hasinai, Natchitoches, and Kadohadacho—and their intricate dances with the Spaniards...

... outposts of North America. In 1786-87 Vial explored a route from San Antonio de Béjar to Santa Fe via the Taovaya Villages on the Red River, and his work immediately brought another expedition in the opposite direction by José Mares. In 1788-89 Vial made a notable trip from Santa Fe to Natchitoches via...

...John Hart Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 On 4 July 2001, Mexican historian David Wayne Walker died in a Corpus Christi hospital, after a terrible fall while skydiving earlier that day in Beeville, Texas. David was born in 1948 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, once the last stop...

... ran from San Antonio to Nacogdoches, or they moved over the road from La Bahía to the site of the abandoned village of Bucareli on the banks of the Trinity, there joining the Camino Real and moving esatward. From Nacogdoches the animals were driven to Natchitoches, Louisiana, and on to the interior...

.... By 1786 Louisiana’s tobacco exports reached a million pounds, which brought a profit of $500,000 to the royal treasury. Miró was so confident of this trade that he recommended the government buy six million pounds in the future. But the initial high quality of Natchitoches tobacco was not maintained...