Indian captivity in Spanish America
Subtitle: frontier narratives
By: Fernando Operé ; translated by Gustavo Pellón.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813925868; 9780813925875
Subjects: Indian captivities -- Latin America
Work titles: Historias de la frontera.
Notes: Translation of: Historias de la frontera.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Florida captives in the sixteenth century; title: Malocas on the Araucanian frontier : the happy captivity of Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán; title: Captives in the Río de la Plata region; title: Accounts of captives in the pampas and Patagonia; title: The northern frontier : from the Chichimecas to the Comanches; title: From Helena Valero to Napëyoma : the journey of a captive; title: Captives in literature; title: Epilogue.