Presidio La Bahia Award

Listing for 1968 - 1999
Winners of the PRESIDIO LA BAHIA Award 1968-1999
19991st Place: Gregg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas

2nd Place: William C. Foster, The LaSalle Expedition Into Texas, the Journal of Henri Joutel

Periodical: Ed Bradley, "Fighting for Texas: Filibuster James Long, the Adams-Onis Treaty, and the Monroe Administration"

19981st Place: John Miller Morris, El Llano Estacado:Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860

2nd Place: Richard V. Francaviglia, for From Sail to Steam:Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900

Periodical: Adam Benavides, Jr., "Archival Investigations for Mission Nuestra Senora De Los Dolores De Los Ais, San Augustine County, Texas"

19971st Place: William C. Foster, Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690

2nd Place: William A. DePalo, The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852

3rd Place: Tamra L. Walter, "The Dynamics of Culture Change and its Reflection in the Archeological Record of Espiritu Santo de Zuniga, Victoria County, Texas" published by the South Texas Archeological Association

19961st Place: Charles Cutter, The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810

2nd Place: Gerald Poyo, Editor, for Tejano Journey, 1770-1850

3rd Place: Dr. Felix Almaraz, "Texas Governor Manuel Salcedo and the Court-Martial of Padre Miguel Hidalgo, 1810-1811"

19951st Place: Jesús F. de la Teja for San Antonio de Béxar: a Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier

2nd Place: Tina Juárez for Call No Man Master

3rd Place: Craig H. Roell for a booklet, "Remember Goliad!"

19941st Place: Andrés Tijerina for Tejanos & Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836

2nd Place: Joe S. Graham for El Rancho in South Texas

3rd Place: Adán Benavides and Elizabeth A. H. John for an article, "Inside the Comanchería, 1785:The Diary of Pedro Vial and Francisco Xavier Chaves"

Special Award: Heather K. Hardy, Timothy Montler, and Sylvia Sylestine for Dictionary of the Alabama Language

19931st Place: Cathryn A. Hoyt and Helen Simons, editors, for Hispanic Texas

2nd Place: Jack Jackson for Flags along the Coast: Charting the Gulf of Mexico, a Reappraisal of the Period 1519-1759

3rd Place: Rice Design Alliance for an article, "Regional Cultures of the Texas-Mexico Border," published in Architectural & Design Review

19921st Place: Donald E. Chipman for Spanish Texas: 1519-1821

2nd Place: Robert S. Weddle for The French Thorn

3rd Place: Robert H. Thonhoff for El Fuerte de Cibolo

19911st Place Gilbert M. Hinojosa and Gerald E. Poyo for Tejano Origins in Eighteenth Century San Antonio

2nd Place: Jack Jackson, Winston de Ville, and Robert Weddle for Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast: The Contributions of Saint-Denis, Olivan, and Le Maire

1990Adan Benavides for The Bexar Archives (1717-1836): A Name Guide
1989 1st Place: Gilbert R. Cruz for Let There Be Towns: Spanish Municipal Origins in the American Southwest, 1610-1810

2nd Place: Elizabeth A. H. John and John Wheat for Voices from the Apache Frontier: Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain by Jose Cortez, Lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Engineers, 1799

1988 1st Place: Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberto M. Hinojosa for Spanish Texas and Badlands Historiography in Transition: Implications for United States History

2nd Place: Elizabeth A. H. John for The Riddle of Mapmaker Juan Pedro Walker

3rd Place: Jack Jackson for Philip Nolan and Texas

1987 1st Place: Adan Benavides, Jr. for Commandancy General Archive of the Eastern Interior Provinces

2nd Place: Gilberto M Hinojosa for Friars and Indians

3rd Place: Dennis Reinhartz and Charles Colley for The Mapping of the American Southwest

1986 1st Place: Robert Thonhoff for The San Antonio Missions and Their System of Land Tenure

2nd Place Felix D Almaraz, Jr. for Long upon the Land

1985 1st Place: Robert S. Weddle for Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery. 1500-1595

2nd Place: Mary Ann Bruni for Rosita's Christmas Wish

3rd Place: Felix D. Almaraz, Jr. for Landmarks of Myth and Reality upon the Tejano Community: From Cabeza de Vaca to Santa Anna

1984 1st Place: Elizabeth A. H. John for Nurturing the Peace: Spanish and Comanche Cooperation in the Early Nineteenth Century

2nd Place: Mary Ann Noonan Guerra for The Missions of San Antonio

1983 1st Place: Gilbert M Hinojosa for A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1753-1870

2nd Place: Jack Jackson for Los Mestenos: A Study of Spanish Ranching in Texas, 1721-1821. Parts I and II

1982 1st Place: David J. Weber for The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846

2nd Place: Marion A. Habig for Spanish Texas Safari

3rd Place: Benedict Leutenegger, translator, for Letters and Memorials of the Father Presidente Fray Benito Fernandez de Santa Ana, 1736-1754 and Frontier Odyssey: Early Life in a Spanish Texas Town

1981 1st piece: Robert Thonhoff for Texas in the American Revolution

2nd Place: Father Bernard Diekemper for Pan Y Vida

3rd Place: The Center for Archeological Research for Excavations at the Alamo Shrine

1980 Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research of the Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio for Contemporary Perspectives on the Old Spanish Missions of San Antonio
1979 1st Place: David McDonald, translator, and J. B. Arnold III, documentary sources for The Wreck of the New Spain Fleet of 1554, Texas Antiquities Committee Publication #8

2nd Place: Benedict Leutenegger, translator, and Marion A. Habig, compiler, for The Primary Sources for the History of Mission San Jose Y San Miguel de Aguayo from Its Founding in 1720 to the Present

3rd Place: W. H. Oberste, KSJ, for Texas Missions of the Coastal Bend: Espiritu Santo, Rosario, Refugio

1978 Robert S. Meddle for San Juan Bautista, Gateway to Spanish Texas
1977 Benedict Leutenegger for Guidelines for a Texas Mission: Instructions for the Missionary of Mission Concepcion in San Antonio (ca. 1760), a set of four books
1976 1st Place: Benedict Leutenegger and Marion A. Habig for Nothingness Itself: Selected Writings of Ven. Fr. Antonio Mar Gil, 1690-1724
1974 1st Place: Elizabeth A. H John for Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indian, Spanish and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795

2nd Place: Jerry Thompson for Sabers on the Rio Grande

3rd Place: Gilbert R. Cruz for Spanish Town Patterns in the Borderlands: Municipal Origins in Texas and the Southwest, 1610-1810

1973 Benedict Leutenegger and Marion A. Habig for The Zacatecan Missionaries in Texas, 1716-1834
1972 Robert S. Weddle for Wilderness Manhunt
1971 1st Place: Gary Ebert Starnes for Juan de Ugalde (1729-1816) and the Provincias internas of Coahuila and Texas

2nd Place: Ruth Temple for News of the Settlements Which Make Up the New Kingdom of Leon, the Province of Coahuila, New Extremadura, and Texas (1789), an English translation of a rare Spanish book by Antonio Ladron of Guevara

1970 1st Place: Robert H. Thonhoff for El Fuerte de Santa Cruz del Cibolo

2nd Place: Spanish Missions Committee of the Archdiocese of San Antonio for its work in the restoration of Mission San Juan Capistrano

3rd Place: Gilbert R. Cruz for A Cabildo in Texas under the Spanish Bourbons

1969 1st Place: W. W. Newcomb and Curtis Tunnell for A Lipan Apache Mission, San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz, 1762-1771

2nd Place: Ruth Temple for Manual for the Administration of the Holy Sacraments of Penance, the Eucharist, the Extreme Unction and Matrimony (a translation of Spanish text compiled in 1760 by Fray Bartholome Garcia to aid the Franciscan missionaries of the San Antonio River region in their work among various Indian tribes; originally compiled in Spanish and Coahuiltecan)

1968 The Texas Old Mission Restoration Association

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