Last Conquistador Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest

Name: Last Conquistador Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
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ISBN: 9780806123684

ISBN-10: 0806123680

ISBN-13: 9780806123684

Edition: N/A

Authors: Marc Simmons

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This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family. In 1598, in his late forties, Onate led a formidable expedition of settlers, with wagons and livestock, on an epic march northward to the upper Rio Grade Valley of New Mexico. There he established the first European settlement west of the Mississippi, launching a significant chapter in early American history. In his activities he displayed qualities typical of Spain's sixteenth-century men of action; in his career we find a summation of the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 3/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English