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050	0	0	_aF799 _b.O587 1991
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100	1		_aSimmons, Marc
245	1	4	_aThe last conquistador _b: Juan de Oñate and the settling of the far Southwest _c/ by Marc Simmons
260			_aNorman _b: University of Oklahoma Press _c, c1991.
300			_axvi, 208 _b: ill. _c; 22 cm.
440		4	_aThe Oklahoma western biographies _v; v. 2
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
520			_aThis 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.
600	1	0	_aOñate, Juan de _d, 1549?-1624
650		0	_aExplorers _z--Southwest, New _v--Biography
650		4	_aExplorers _z-Spain _v--Biography
651		0	_aSouthwest, New _x--History _y--To 1848
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