Lost Spanish Towns: Atascosito and Trinidad de Salcedo

Description

Author: Epperson, Jean L.

Publisher: Dogwood Press

Pub Date: 1997 (Second edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s blindstamp on upper corner title page.  Purchase location and date hand-written in pencil on upper corner title page.   Pencil markings throughout.

Notes: Covers the period 1756 to the 1830s in a small portion of Southeast Texas.  Brief histories of the now ghost towns of Atascosito and Trinidad de Salcido (both near Nacogdoches), as well as the presidio of El Orcoquisac, the Orcoquisa Indians, the mission of Nuestra Señor de la Luz, Champ D’Asile, the 1807 census of Atascosito, AND the life of Charles Salier, the founder of Lake Charles, Louisiana.  Lots of information in a little book.  Photographs badly reproduced, but the maps and drawings are okay (i.e., not from photocopies).