The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821 (Histories of the American Frontier)

Spain's frontier movement in North America planted Hispanic civilization in much of the future United States beginning with Ponce de Leon's arrival in Florida in 1513. After describing the travels of the conquistador explorers, it continues through three centuries of mission, presidio, and town development in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. As the Anglo-American frontier pushed westward, the Spanish frontier was increasingly a defensive one, and here the clashes between the two are fully explained, as are international rivalries involving the English, French, and even Russian pressures that affected the frontier. A history of the Spanish borderlands in North America describes the travels of the conquistador explorers, continuing through three centuries of mission, presidio, and town development in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; explaining the increasing clashes with the Anglo-American frontier, including the international rivalries involving the English, French, and even Russian pressures that affected the frontier Provides the first all-inclusive treatment of the Spanish Borderlands in over fifty years. After describing the travels of the conquistador explorers, it continues through three centuries of mission, presidio, and town development in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.