The conquistador in California: 1535
Subtitle: the voyage of Fernando Cortes to Baja California in chronicles and documents.
By: Translated and edited by W. Michael Mathes.
Series: Baja California travels series,; 31
Publisher: Dawson's Book Shop
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Baja California (Mexico) -- Discovery and exploration; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540
Table of contents: title: Mathes, W. M. Introduction to the documents.; title: Gómara, F. López de. History of the conquest of Mexico.; title: Díaz del Castillo, B. The true history of the conquest of New Spain.; title: Herrera y Tordesillas, A. de. A general history of the actions of the Castillians on the islands and mainland of the ocean sea.; title: Lorenzana, F. A. Voyage of Hernán Cortés to the peninsula of the Californias.; title: A royal order amplifying the appointment of Fernando Cortés as Captain General of New Spain and the South Sea, 1 April 1529.; title: The contract made by Queen Juana.; title: The act of possession and discovery.; title: A royal order, 1535.; title: Letter from Fernando Cortés at Santa Cruz to Cristóbol de Oñate at Compostela, 14, May 1535.; title: Bibliography (p. 121-123)