Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

McGeagh, Robert

Juan de Onate's Colony in the Wilderness an early history of the American Southwest / Robert McGeagh. - 1st ed. - Santa Fe, N.M. : Sunstone Press, 1990. - 62 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Spine title: Colony in the wilderness. Includes index.

A generation before the establishment of the European colonies on the East Coast of America, Spanish explorers and friars were trudging the deserts and mountains of the Southwest in search of souls, riches, and glory. By 1598, Juan de Onate had established the first permanent settlement in the American Southwest, twenty-two years before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony. The story of this first colony, the explorations, the defeats and successes, the hopes blighted and the hopes fulfilled are told in this concise history of the era. Cover

0865341532 : $8.95

90049998


Onate, Juan de, 1549?-1624.


Spaniards--History--New Mexico


New Mexico--Discovery and exploration
New Mexico--History--To 1848

F799 / .M29 1990

978.901092 McG 48