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Chronicles Spanish-Indian contact in North America, the Spanish frontier, and the forging of the Hispanic empire.

"Spanning two and a half centuries, from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 1790s, Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos in the east to the Hopis in the west, and including the histories of the Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Ute, and Wichita peoples....

includes FASCINATING TEXT BY Fred R. GOWANS ACCOMPANIED BY FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS OF THE RENDEZVOUS FROM SCIENTIST, ARTIST, MILITARY PERSONNEL, GOVERNMENT EXPLORERS, AND MISSIONARIES. THE DESCRIPTIONS ARE ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND DRAWINGS.

"An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next three hundred years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their...

This book surveys New Mexico history from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Reforms and new legislation from Spain worked changes in all areas of political administration in New Mexico during it last fifty years as a province of Spain.

Contains the five novels which feature Natty Bumppo and his adventures on the westward-moving American frontier

Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.

Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must find other means of making a living. Sam decides to return to California with his daughter Esperanza and start a new life.

In 1779 journal of Juan Bautista de Anza is the first known record of extensive European travel into Colorado. Many of the streams on his map show names that are sitll in use today.