A New History of Old Texas Podcast
1) Triumph and Tragedy, Tolerance and Toughness
This is the audio from my October 2024 SA PechaKucha talk, which you can find on YouTube as well. As a summary of my thoughts after thinking deeply about San Antonio and early Texas history for the la...Show More
2) The Battlefield(s) of Medina?
We found another site. But so did someone else. And there's a rumored fourth site out there as well now? What in the name of Miguel Menchaca's ghost is going on?www.BrandonSeale.com
3) Apache Empire
Thanks to the horse, Plains Apaches expand their influence over an increasingly broad swath of the Great Plains and Northern Mexico. In the course of one remarkable generation, they drive the Spanish ...Show More
4) Changing Woman
A new Spanish outpost on the San Antonio River represents an opportunity and a threat to the Apaches' Texas plains trade. The great empires test each other with equal turns generosity and violenc...Show More
5) San Sabá
In the course of a single generation, Spanish policy toward Lipan Apaches shifts from alliance to extermination. But a generation of alliance-making by Lipan Captain Bigotes makes the Lipan alliance ...Show More
6) Lipanes at Last
Following the great peace of 1749, San Antonio becomes the great outlet for native North American trade and for the mediation of Native Texas culture into Spanish society. In turn, Texas Apaches commi...Show More
7) Alliance and Advantage
Proto-Apaches, Jumanos, and Puebloans vie for control of the Texas Plains in the face of Spanish entradas, epidemics, and slaving expeditions. www.BrandonSeale.com
8) Indios Bárbaros
Spanish army officers prove reluctant to change their mindset, however, even as the Lipan alliance under the great Captain Picax-Andé brings to a definitive halt the advance of Spanish conquest. www.B...Show More
9) The Unbroken
Pressed on all sides by European and native rivals, the Lipanes never should have survived into the nineteenth century. Yet not only had they survived, they had done so with their numbers and their ra...Show More
10) Unshared Sovereignty
In the turmoil of the War for Mexican independence, Lipan Captain Cuelgas de Castro emerges as a beacon of stability in Texas. Perhaps no one saw the Texas geopolitical checkerboard better at this mom...Show More