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From this struggling settlement eventually developed modern San Antonio, Texas. This award-winning history explores eighteenth-century San Antonio de Béxar, a community on the periphery of Spain's North American frontier. In spite of isolation and neglect, many of the settlers, veterans of frontier colonies farther south, founded San Antonio on centuries-old institutions. Although the colonists often feuded with one another in the early years, frontier political and economic forces molded them into a single community by the end of the eighteenth century.