Chancellor Mitchell, 3, plays along the Camino Real in Weeping Mary, Texas. The community was founded by freed slaves after the Civil War along the trail that the colonial Spanish used for travel between Nacogdoches and San Antonio.

Camino Real Life today along the colonial Spanish road through Texas

A lone dead tree graces the landscape along Highway 7 near Crockett, Texas along the old Spanish trail, the Camino Real.

Jesse Flores, 12, relaxes after a day of working horses along the old Camino Real south of San Antonio. Ranching techniques now used by Texas cowboys originated with the Spanish in colonial times.	The sun sets on a summer day as traffic rolls along Highway 21, which follows the approximate route of the colonial Camino Real in East Texas.

"A soldier is remembered"

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