Title: The Navajos in 1705
First published: 1996
Description: This long-lost journal gives a unique look into the old Navajo country. Recently rediscovered, it is both the earliest and only eyewitness account of the traditional Navajo homeland in the eighteenth century. It reveals new information on Hispanic New Mexico and relations with the Indians.

For the first twenty days in August 1705, Roque Madrid led about 100 Spanish soldiers and citizens together with some 300 Pueblo Indian allies on a 312-mile march to torch Navajo corn fields and homes in northwest New Mexico. Three times they fought hand-to-hand to retaliate for Navajo raids in which Spanish settlers were robbed and killed. The bilingual text permits appreciation of the unusually literate and dramatic journal.

Historical and archeological data are carefully tapped to retrace the route, and biographical data on the key participants round out the volume.
Subjects: Navajo Indians, Early works to 1800, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Diaries, Travel, Sources, History, Journeys, Indians of north america, southwest, new, Indians of north america, history, Indians of north america, social life and customs
Places: New Spain
People: Roque Madrid (1644-ca. 1723)
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: E99.N3 M2976 1996