Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain

by Oakah L. Jones and Jones

Book Overview

Little has been written about the colonists sent by Spanish authorities to settle the northern frontier of New Spain, to stake Spain's claim and serve as a buffer against encroaching French explorers. "Los Paisanos," they were called - simple country people who lived by their own labor, isolated, threatened by hostile Indians, and restricted by law from seeking opportunity elsewhere. They built their homes, worked their fields, and became permanent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806114320
• ISBN13: 9780806114323
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 351 Pages