No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada

Description

Author: Flint, Richard (1946-)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 2013

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner slightly bent, worn, wear extends to first 3 or 4 pages.  Pen marks on pages xiv through page 8, then nothing thereafter.  Some scuffing to front and rear covers.

Notes:  From 1539 to 1542, approximately 2000 indigenous Mexicans and 400 Spanish soldiers attempted to conquer Tierra Nueva, i.e. northwest Mexico and a portion of the American southwest.  In exchange for fealty to the Spanish king, the native inhabitants would get religion and slavery.  Any wonder things went south fairly quickly.  “Wait.  Where’s all the gold?”