This was an entirely different way of looking at Texas. We study the geography of Texas in this issue. The core of this issue is El Camino Real or, more accurately, frontier roads in general. The latter changed our continent forever by initiating events that led to the American Revolution and the temporary absence of France in Louisiana. Change is at hand and happening rapidly.
New regulations appear.
There is a new Indian policy. New routes are opening. A new nation is born. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States and opened the western frontier all the way to the Pacific Ocean. It also placed the United States on the eastern border of Texas.