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Arranged Chronologically
Bolton, Herbert Eugene, The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921)
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Vicente Rodriguez Casado and Florentino Pérez Embid, Construcciones militares del Virrey Amat (Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1949) https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/171245
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Max L. Moorhead, “The Soldado de Cuera: Stalwart of the Spanish Borderlands,” Journal of the West 8, no. 1 (January, 1969): 38-55.
Odie B. Faulk, The Leather Jacket Soldier: Spanish Military Equipment and Institutions of the late 18th Century (Pasadena: Socio-Technical Publications, 1971)
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Max L. Moorhead, The Presidio: Bastion of the Spanish Borderlands (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975)
Elizabeth A.H. John, Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spaniards, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975)
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Ruth Pike, “Penal Servitude in the Spanish Empire: Presidio Labor in the Eighteenth Century,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 58, no. 1 (Feb 1978): 21-40.
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Andrés Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Ronald Wayne Childers, “The Presidio System in Spanish Florida,” Historical Archaeology 38, no. 3 (2004): 24-32.
Judith A. Bense, “Presidio Santa María De Galve (1698-1719): A Frontier Garrison in Spanish West Florida,” Historical Archaeology 38, no. 3 (2004): 47-64.
F. Gregory, George Avery, Aubra L. Lee, and Jay C. Blaine, “Presidio Los Adaes: Spanish, French, and Caddoan Interaction on the Northern Frontier,” Historical Archaeology 38, no. 3 (2004): 65-77.
James E. Bruseth, Jeffrey J. Durst, Tiffany Osburn, Kathleen Gilmore, Kay Hindes, Nancy Reese, Barbara Meissner and Mike Davis, “A Clash of Two Cultures: Presidio La Bahía on the Texas Coast as a Deterrent to French Incursion,” Historical Archaeology 38, no. 3 (2004): 78-93.
Tamra L. Walter, “The Archaeology of Presidio San Sabá: A Preliminary Report,” Historical Archaeology 38, no. 3 (2004): 94-105.
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