San Vicente, Texas

San Vicente was a village located in Brewster County, Texas, United States, within the protruding big bend of the Rio Grande.^[1] The village was geographically 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the San Vicente Crossing in present-day Big Bend National Park. The uninhabited site provides a panoramic view of the Chisos Mountains and the Sierra San Vicente migrating into Northern Mexico.

Historical citations of San Vicente

San Vicente settlement established cemeteries north and south of the village vicinity encompassing 1.6 miles (2.6 km) between the memorial grounds.^[2][3] The south funerary plot, also known as the San Vicente Crossing cemetery, has a proximity to the San Vicente Crossing on the Rio Grande.^[4][5]

Presidio of San Vicente

On September 10, 1772, the

See also

References

Audiobook bibliography

• History of the Conquest of Mexico public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Bibliography

• Solís, Antonio de (1724). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. London, England: T. Woodward and J. Hooke.
  OCLC 1046514488
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• Solís, Antonio de (1738). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Vol. I. London, England: John Osborn.
  OCLC 733087530
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• Solís, Antonio de (1738). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Vol. II. London, England: John Osborn.
  OCLC 733087530
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• Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1818). Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Vol. I. London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
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• Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1818). Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Vol. II. London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
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• Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1819). Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Abraham Small Publisher.
  OCLC 1157455578
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• Bolton, Herbert Eugene (1915). Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
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• Haskell, Marion L. (January 1, 1918). "Review Of Rubí's Inspection of the Frontier Presidios of New Spain, 1766-1768". Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California. 11 (1). Historical Society of Southern California: 33–43.
  JSTOR 41168757
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• United States Geological Survey. San Vicente, TX quadrangle, San Vicente, Texas (Topographic map). Reston, VA: United States Geological Survey – via TopoQuest.

• "Big Bend Presidios". Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
• Ivey, James E. "Presidios of the Big Bend Area" (PDF). National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
• "Spanish Missions, Presidios, and Roads in the 17th and 18th Centuries". Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. University of Texas at Austin. 1976.
• "The Gateway Missions" [Attempts at Native Conversions along the Rio Grande]. Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
• "The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States". Threads of Memory Exhibition ~ New Mexico History Museum. New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

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