Description: Preface Acknowledgments Preface to the Paperback Edition Part I: Frontier Outpost, 1700-1716 1. Finding the Gateway 2. The Mission Builders 3. New Spiritual Conquests 4. The Flying Company 5. Harvesters in the Vineyard 6. From Thorns of Paganism 7. Stranger from the Wilderness 8. With Sword and Cross 9. A Plan for Texas 10. The French Cavalier 11. Night of Terror 12. Back to the Tejas Part II: Mother of Missions, 1716-1772 13. Padre Olivares' Dream 14. Contraband and Frustration 15. Miracle in the Montes 16. Changing of the Guard 17. The Double Standard 18. The Islanders 19. Up the Ro Grande 20. A Cross to Bear 21. New Roads to Texas 22. To the Meeting of the Rivers 23. Brink of Sacrifice 24. Providences of 1756 25. Ill Wind from the Plains 26. Missions in the Canyon 27. Isle of the Malaguitas 28. The Savage Frontier 29. New Line of Defense 30. End of an Era Part III: Presidio of the Line: After 1772 31. Sword above the Cross 32. Padre Morfi's Visit 33. Fading of the Missions 34. Death to the Gachupines 35. Bugle at Dawn 36. Decade of the Republic 37. Army of Chihuahua 38. Closing the Gateway Bibliography Index

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