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Article published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. This paper is partly a summary of and partly a series of selections from a longer study on the subject of the inspection of military posts in New Spain by Pedro de Rivera in the third decade of the eighteenth century. The facts selected from the longer study, for the main parts of this paper, relate to his travels in Texas and in three other provinces of New Spain which were nearest to Texas: namely, New Mexico, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. Preceding these facts in an introductory explanation of the origin and the general nature of his entire journey of inspection. The explanation is derived from official papers written in Madrid and the City of Mexico. The description of the selected portions of his journey is based upon, and quoted from, his own diary of that event. This paper was read at the meeting of the Texas State Historical Association in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 1937.

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Cover story on Alex Harvey.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: David Allan, Pete Ballow, Elton Britt, Cooder Brown, Milton Brown, Frenchie Burke, Johnny Bush, David Allan Coe, Alex Harvey, Mose Deberry, Legs Diamond, Jay Dominguez, Tino Esquivel, Don Evans, Freddy Fender, Kent Finlay, Alex Haley, Butch Heffelfinger, Ruben James, Clifton Jansky, Waylon Jennings, Darrell McCall, James W. McIver, Huey Meaux, Augie Meyers, Smokey Moore, Michael Murphy, Willie Nelson, Galen Niles, Helen Reddy, Betty Rice, Jimmie Rodgers, Doug Sahm, Bill Shore, Charles Sparks, Scott Stephens, Larry Teasley, Bob Wills.

Cover story on Thomas Michael Riley