Jack of Harts

Spain explored Texas in the late 1600s to hunt down rumored French outposts in the area, and sent full colonies to plant their flag in the 1700s. But they soon found Eastern Texas not worth the effort to maintain and decided to abandon those colonies. And when the Tejano colonists refused to leave, Spain shipped them back to the other colonies at gunpoint. The Tejanos did not appreciate these heavy-handed tactics, and independence movements began to take heart in their communities. What did Spain know about their daily lives? What did Spain know about their dreams and visions? What did Spain care about their world out beyond the frontier? And what gave Spain the right to demand anything of them? The longer they thought and stewed over those questions, the more they could see a world where they were free of the Spanish crown telling them to do anything.