Historia de la Nueva México, 1610

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Author: Pérez de Villagrá, Gaspar  (1555-1620)

Editors/Translators: Encinias, Miguel; Rodriguez, Alfred; and Sánchez, Joseph P.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  As new.

Notes:  Bilingual, Spanish and English, two columns per page, side by side.  Villagra was born in the New World but was sent to school in Spain.  On his return he secured a position with Oñate’s entrada into Nueva Mexico in 1596.  “Villagra’s poetic recreation of that colonizing expedition, discounting the author’s prescribed humility, includes him among those captains (Marquez, Espinosa, Farfan) who, only exceeded in authority and responsibility by the Zaldivar brothers, Juan and Vicente, field commander and sargeant-major (sic), respectively, were most efficacious in both the pacification and the political and social organization of the new territory.   A short time after the victory at Acoma, with which the poem ends, Villagra was chosen by Oñate to lead an expedition back to New Spain to seek reinforcements.”  (From the Introduction).  This is the first published history of New Mexico.