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“The British and Comanches are Coming! The Problem of English Traders and Indian Diplomacy in Spanish Texas for Support of the American Revolution”
Palko Hall 3000 Bellaire Drive North, Fort WorthThis talk focuses upon the Spanish imperial project during the late 1770’s in the far northeastern frontier of New Spain (colonial Mexico) that included the province of Texas. With the appearance of English traders along the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Spanish attempted to exert control over Indigenous nations and trade through the establishment of... Read more »
The Architecture of Charles Stevens Dilbeck in Fort Worth
Quirky. Eclectic. Whimsical. Delightful. All of these words have been used to describe the man and the work of Dilbeck who designed some of the region’s most interesting and important... Read more »
A French Enclave in the Texas Panhandle, 1878-1898
The history of the French in Texas since the 1700s has been chronicled and well documented by Texas historians, who have written at length about the establishment of French explorers in Texas. Yet far less is known about the many families who left France behind and all that was familiar to them, immigrated to the... Read more »