The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
(Book #2 in the Oklahoma Western Biographies Series)
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Book Overview
This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de O?ate, 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. In 1598, in his late forties, O?ate 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. Marc Simmons holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New Mexico. His publications include more than one hundred articles and nearly two dozen books on the American Southwest, several of them award winners.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0806123680
ISBN13:9780806123684
Release Date:March 1993
Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.73 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
History like a well told story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Marc Simmons can always be relied upon for giving acurate information in a compelling package. If you do not know the story of New Mexico's quasi feudal founding by Spanish Conqustidors in armor both the good and bad then you must buy this book quickly and correct your educational deficiency.
History with the Verve of a Novel
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Marc Simmons does an excellent job of telling a story. I have endured novels that were much less engaging and well told. Simmons brings immediacy and life to events that occurred four hundred years ago. I wish he had written the history texts I was compelled to read in high school.
The real Onate
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Many have made their views of Onate and opinions clear here around New Mexico, but few have ever made even a slight reference to the men around Onate ... the time Onate lived in, but alas, Marc Simmons has a captivating impartial review of the infamous Onate.
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