Spain in the Southwest
Subtitle: a narrative history of colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
By: John L. Kessell.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Southwest, New; Spaniards -- Southwest, New -- History; Southwest, New -- History -- To 1848; Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; New Mexico -- History -- To 1848; Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Texas -- History -- To 1846; California -- History -- To 1846
Description: "John L. Kessell's Spain in the Southwest is an illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain's vast frontier - today's American Southwest and Mexican North - which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disconnected periphery of the Spanish empire.".

"Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-444) and index.