Three years later he and Massanet cooperated in founding the first Spanish mission in East Texas, San Francisco de los Tejas, at a site in the environs of present Augusta, Texas.
He is credited with being an early advocate for the establishment of missions along the frontier, and he blazed much of the Old San Antonio Road on his expeditions. He returned to Coahuila and died there on March 20, Herbert Eugene Bolton, ed.
Robert S. The first two expeditions, in and , yielded no evidence of the French colony. One Frenchman, Jean Gery, was captured during the third expedition in It was during De Leons fourth expedition, in , that he finally discovered La Salles settlement, which had been abandoned by that time. De Leon served as mayor of Cadereyta from to He was governor of Nuevo Leon from to In , he was appointed governor of the region of Coahuila.
In doing so, he blazed the trail for much of the Old San Antonio Road. These documents hold major importance for early Texas scholarship. Some of these early manuscripts have been known to historians, but never before have all sixteen manuscripts been studied.
In this interdisciplinary study, Norris transcribes, translates, and analyzes the diaries from two different perspectives. The historical analysis reveals that frequent misinterpretations of the Spanish source documents have led to substantial factual errors that have persisted in historical interpretation for more than a century.
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