Description
This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family.
About the Author
Historian Marc Simmons is a founder and the first president of the Santa Fe Trail Association. His forty-nine books include six about the Trail and The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest.
Book Information
ISBN 9780806123684
Author Marc Simmons
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm
In 1598, in his late forties, Onate led a formidable expedition of settlers, with wagons and livestock, on an epic march northward to the upper Rio Grade Valley of New Mexico. There he established the first European settlement west of the Mississippi, launching a significant chapter in early American history.
In his activities he displayed qualities typical of Spain's sixteenth-century men of action; in his career we find a summation of the motives, aspirations, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses of the Hispanic pioneers who settled the Borderlands.
About the Author
Historian Marc Simmons is a founder and the first president of the Santa Fe Trail Association. His forty-nine books include six about the Trail and The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest.
Book Information
ISBN 9780806123684
Author Marc Simmons
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm
