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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 Esteban Jordan.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Willie Bobo, Leslie Bovee, Frenchie Burke, Connie Cato, Patsy Coleman, Bernice Cortez, Peter Frampton, Carroll Gilley, Efrain Gutierrez, Roy Head, John Holmes, Jerry Jeff, Jim Landry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bubba Littrell, Linda Lovell, Bobby Mahaffey, Steve Mallett, Darrell McCall, Augie Meyers, Willie Nelson, Tommy Overstreet, Ray Price, Douglas Quintet, Edna Rodarte, Johnny Rodriguez, Glenn Smith, Gary Stewart, John Stuckey, Barry Sullivan, Hank Thompson, Mel Tillis, Joe Torra, Johnny Wadd, Jack Walker, Jerry Wallace, Hank Williams.

Cover story on Claude Morgan