Bridles and Biscuits with Gary Pinkerton

Gary Pinkerton will talk about his new book Bridles and Biscuits: Contraband Culture in Spanish East Texas. From the publisher: Pinkerton "explores the complex economies and shifting structures of a borderland environment. In 1773, as residents of Los Adaes were abruptly forced to relocate to Béxar, the Spanish retreat from the region created a greater opening for unregulated trade among French, American, and Italian settlers ... Pinkerton demonstrates how the region that hosted the exiled Adaeseños “became the entry point for those with bigger goals than trading horses and skins.” Pinkerton is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Texas History and the author of Trammel’s Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (2016) and other books. Refreshments provided. Free and open to all.