Uncovering America’s First War: Contact, Conflict, and Coronado’s Expedition to the Rio Grande

Description

Author: Schmader, Matthew F.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM)

Pub Date: 2025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good.  This is a NEW book.  Without dust jacket, as issued.

Notes:  America’s earliest named war, the Tiguex War, between the ancestors of the modern Rio Grande pueblos (Sandia and Isleta) and Francisco Coronado’s troops, at a site known as Piedras Marcadas (Marked Stones/Rocks) Pueblo, now a part of Petroglyph National Monument within the city limits of Albuquerque.