Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest
Subtitle: A Collision of Cultures
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780786497409
Subjects: Southwest, new, history
Description: "Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. This is the story of how Spanish explorers, soldiers and men of the church pushed north from Mexico in the 1500s, seeking riches and establishing settlements from Texas to California 250 years before the influx of American settlers in the mid-1800s"--