Wilderness Manhunt

by Weddle, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780890969106
• ISBN10: 0890969108
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

A vibrant account of the Spanish search for the French colony on the Texas coast (1685-89), Robert S. Weddle's Wilderness Manhunt is an indispensable source on Spain's "rediscovery" of the Gulf of Mexico's northern coast.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the New Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Thorn in America's Heart	1	(14)
The Great Design	15	(9)
Bay of the Holy Ghost	24	(10)
The Buccaneers	34	(12)
Mud Cape	46	(8)
To the Rio Bravo	54	(12)
Awakening in Florida	66	(10)
Land of Tiqui Pache	76	(11)
No Stone Unturned	87	(10)
Derelict at San Bernardo	97	(11)
Rio de la Porciuncula	108	(10)
The Grand Hoax	118	(14)
The Demented Frenchman	132	(17)
San Bernardo Revisited	149	(10)
Death in the Wilderness	159	(15)
Fort St. Louis	174	(15)
The French Survivors	189	(15)
Mission to the Tejas	204	(13)
The Premature Thrust	217	(15)
The French Wedge	232	(17)
La Salle's Remnants	249	(18)
Bibliography	267	(10)
Index	277