Quivira: Europeans in Region Santa Fe Trail

by William Brandon

New Mexico was a frontier to the wilderness, for Europeans, for almost three hundred years. No other frontier history in the area of what is now the United States can support such continuity, or even come close. It was the outside edge of the northern borderlands of New Spain, that later became the northern borderlands of Mexico. It was the western rim of the world for the French explorers and fur traders in the Mississippi valley and for the English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821409506
• ISBN13: 9780821409503
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"