Bridles and Biscuits: Contraband Culture in Spanish East Texas SS_Gift_Guide While supplies last

While supplies last

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Who’s harmed—and who's left out

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Bridles and Biscuits: Contraband Culture in Spanish East Texas SS_Gift_Guide While supplies lastBreakfast and his horses bridle: these were what a Spanish soldier in 1790s Spanish East Texas traded for the unregulated goods found in his possession. Here Gary L. Pinkerton uncovers the true nature of contraband trade and why it was so pervasive. This poor soldier, Pinkerton writes, was willing to ride bridle less on horseback to Bxar and risk arrest so he could give his wife a gift. No nation on earth could stop that kind of trade. The soldiers