A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ast to the buffalo plains and along thePecos River. Onate, in his search for Quivira, entered theterritory, and from that time until 1654 many expeditions ofpriests and ofificers were made from New Mexico into portionsof Texas, some of which met, traded, and fought with nativetribes and entered the land of the Tejas Indians. The countryhad given no indications of mineral wealth, and that alone wassufficient to render its immediate or permanent occupation amatter of indifference to the gold-hunting Spaniards. ButSpanish mission
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ast to the buffalo plains and along thePecos River. Onate, in his search for Quivira, entered theterritory, and from that time until 1654 many expeditions ofpriests and ofificers were made from New Mexico into portionsof Texas, some of which met, traded, and fought with nativetribes and entered the land of the Tejas Indians. The countryhad given no indications of mineral wealth, and that alone wassufficient to render its immediate or permanent occupation amatter of indifference to the gold-hunting Spaniards. ButSpanish missionaries had founded stations and preached Chris-tianity as far as the Pecos and beyond, while Spanish troopershad hunted along its streams and chased the buffalo on itsprairies long before 1685. In that very year, Penalosa (pan-yii-lo-sii), the late governor of New Mexico, was in London andParis, trying to organize an expedition to explore and conquer 6i 62 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Pkriod I. Spanmsh Domination 1528 TO 1821 Father Pare-dess accountof Texas, 1686. A Mkxican Cart. Origin of thename Texas New l^hilippincs tlie wonderful country he claimed to have discovered, and whichincluded the fertile domain of the Tejas Indians. In 1686, Viceroy Laguna called upon Father Alonzo Paredes(par-a-daz), for many years a missionary in New Mexico, for areport as to the region where Texas lies. Paredess report isthe first and most authentic account of the notions which thenprexailcd in regard to this country. He denounced as false anddelusi\e the ideas about the wealth, magnificence, and civiliza-tion of the regions to the east and northeast. His idea was thatthere were Indian tribes, engaged in agriculture,living in a strip fifty leagues wide along the Gulf,with the wild Apaches farther west and reachingto New Mexico ; that between the two, from theRio Grande or the Colorado northward,there were superior tribes, includingthe Tejas. His descriptions are soconfused as to distances and
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