The last conquistador : Juan de Oñate and the settling of the far Southwest
Simmons, Marc
The last conquistador : Juan de Oñate and the settling of the far Southwest / by Marc Simmons - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , c1991. - xvi, 208 : ill. ; 22 cm. - The Oklahoma western biographies ; v. 2 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family. In 1598, in his late forties, Onate led a formidable expedition of settlers, with wagons and livestock, on an epic march northward to the upper Rio Grade Valley of New Mexico. There he established the first European settlement west of the Mississippi, launching a significant chapter in early American history. In his activities he displayed qualities typical of Spain's sixteenth-century men of action; in his career we find a summation of the motives, aspirations, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses of the Hispanic pioneers who settled the Borderlands.
9780806123684
90050697
Oñate, Juan de , 1549?-1624
Explorers----Southwest, New----Biography
Explorers---Spain----Biography
Southwest, New----History----To 1848
F799 / .O587 1991
92 ONA
The last conquistador : Juan de Oñate and the settling of the far Southwest / by Marc Simmons - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , c1991. - xvi, 208 : ill. ; 22 cm. - The Oklahoma western biographies ; v. 2 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family. In 1598, in his late forties, Onate led a formidable expedition of settlers, with wagons and livestock, on an epic march northward to the upper Rio Grade Valley of New Mexico. There he established the first European settlement west of the Mississippi, launching a significant chapter in early American history. In his activities he displayed qualities typical of Spain's sixteenth-century men of action; in his career we find a summation of the motives, aspirations, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses of the Hispanic pioneers who settled the Borderlands.
9780806123684
90050697
Oñate, Juan de , 1549?-1624
Explorers----Southwest, New----Biography
Explorers---Spain----Biography
Southwest, New----History----To 1848
F799 / .O587 1991
92 ONA