The written history on those ranches dates to the ... can claim not only ties to one of the many 17th- and 18th-century Spanish missions in Texas, but the actual remains of the mission itself.

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

It took just 90 minutes for history to be made on March 6, 1836, when the Mexican army of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna set out to reclaim the Alamo Mission in a bid to regain control of the city ...