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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.

Cover story on Betty Hansen & Judy film.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Mary Aspaas, Bebe Bartlett, Clay Blaker, Ronnie Branham, David Cali, Hondo Crouch, Bob Crowley, Bob Dickson, Jay Dominguez, Joe Ely, Denny Ezba, Al Garcia, Robert Gomez, Jack Green, Henry Holly, Waylon Jennings, Dan Johnson, George Jones, Jackie King, Guich Koock, Joey Lopez, Loretta Lynn, Billy Mata, Darrell McCall, Ron McPherson, Denise Meek, Augie Meyers, Willie Nelson, Mary Parchman, Doug Sahm, Terry Scherbel, Cal Smith, Ernest Tubb, Conway Twitty, John Wayne.

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Meeting minutes from the Texas State University System Board of Regents.