The Spanish captain responsible for protecting the San Saba mission sensed grave danger on Mar. 10, 1758.
The Apaches viewed the seventeenth-century arrival of the Spaniards with alarm and apprehension. The Europeans’ preoccupation with their eternal enemies – the Comanches, Tejas, Tonkawas and other East Texas tribes – was interpreted as an act of aggression.
Sixty years of constant conflict eventu…
