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
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