The First Republic of Texas

In 1813, San Antonians declared their independence from Spain. The 1813 Texas Declaration of Independence and the 1813 Texas Constitution show San Antonians drawing from both Hispanic and Anglo legal traditions to develop their own political ideology, shaped by and tailored to the hard realities of the Texas frontier.Selected BibliographyAlessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978).De La Teja, Jesús F., ed. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (2002).De la Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier (1996).De Zavala, Lorenzo. Journey to the United States of North America: Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de América. Michael Woolsey, trans., and John-Michael Rivera ed. (2005).Fisher, Lewis F. Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage (2016).Maverick, Mary A. Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick (2007).McDonald, David R. José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas (2013).Poyo, Gerald Eugene, and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds.  Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio (1995).Ramos, Raúl A. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (2010).Texas State Historical Association. The Handbook of Texas Online.Tijerina, Andrés. Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836 (1994).www.BrandonSeale.com