For 145 years before that, Texas belonged to Spain. What an afternoon’s tour of the four San Antonio missions reveals is the hidden truth of all history, which is simply this: The past is with ...

Visitors can immerse themselves in history at the UNESCO World Heritage sites before experiencing the thrill of paddling down ...

While maps might have indicated that New Spain included much of what is now Texas, the Spanish, in fact, rarely controlled territory beyond a few scattered presidios, missions and villages. The ...

and Mission San Antonio de Valero. An American trader and filibuster, Philip Nolan, enters northeast Texas to hunt for wild horses. Spanish troops from Nacogdoches capture Nolan and his party.

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.