Views from the Apache Frontier: Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain - Softcover

Jose Cortes (author), Elizabeth A.H. John (editor) & John Wheat (Translated By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806126094 ISBN 13: 9780806126098

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994

Synopsis

Lieutenant Jose Cortes of the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers was a keen observer of the native peoples of the Northern Borderlands of New Spain. His REPORT ON THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF NEW SPAIN provides the most closely informed, best organized understanding of Apaches available at the end of the eighteenth century.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth A.H. John, of Austin, Texas, is an independent historian engaged in research and writing, consultation, and lectures. Her primary interests lie in the history of the American Indian, the Hispanic Borderlands, and the interplay of Indian and European cultures. She has taught at Sacramento State University and at the University of Oklahoma, where she received her doctorate in history. She is the author of Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795 and numerous articles on Indian topics. She is the editor of José Cortés's Views from the Apache Frontier: Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain, 1799 (University of Oklahoma Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806126094
• ISBN 13: 9780806126098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 163