The Presidio: Bastion of the Spanish Borderlands

Description

Author: Moorhead,  Max L.  (1914-1981)

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Pub Date: 1975 (First edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Price clipped on front flap.  One small chip to spine head.  Scuffing to spine.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: The presidio was a fortified Spanish military garrison.  Moorhead  examines the presidios in the Spanish provinces of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and the Mexican states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, and Sinaloa.  Santa Fe, Tucson, and San Antonio were three presidios.  Part I follows the historical development of the presidio, Part II looks at the forms and functions of the presidio (the fort itself, the soldiers, their payroll, the settlements and the Indian reservations).  Moorhead was the editor of Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies.