Spanish Exploration in the Southwest 1542-1706

SPANISH EXPLORATION IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1542-1706
Original Narratives of Early American History Series
J. Franklin Jameson, General Editor

EXCERPT FROM PREFACE

This volume is logically the successor in the series of Original Narratives to the one edited by Hodge and Lewis under the title of Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. In one important respect the present volume differs from the series in general. The other volumes consist mainly of reproductions of documents which have hitherto appeared in English; but of this volume approximately only one-third of the documents have hitherto been published in English; about one-third have been published in Spanish only; while nearly one-third have never been published hitherto in any language. Of the five documents in the collection which formerly have been published in English, three have been retranslated for this work.

In the selection of the documents it was decided to illustrate with some fullness the cardinal episodes in the history of the region and period covered, rather than to treat more lightly a larger number of topics. This procedure has left the history of seventeenth-century New Mexico almost a blank after its founding by Onate. The brief historical introductions are designed to increase the interest and intelligibility of the documents by giving a connected view of the development of the whole northern frontier of New Spain during the period covered, as well as to furnish the necessary biographical and bibliographical data...

EXCERPT FROM CONTENTS

I. EXPLORATION AND PLANS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CALIFORNIA
1. The Cabrillo-Ferrelo Expedition
2. The Vizcaino Expedition

II. EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT IN NEW MEXICO AND IN ADJACENT REGIONS
1. The Rodriguez Expedition
2. The Espejo Expedition
3. The Onate Expeditions and the Founding of the Province of New Mexico

III. EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT IN TEXAS
1. The Bosque-Larios Expedition
2. The Mendoza-Lopez Expedition to the Jumanos
3. The De Leon-Massanet Expeditions

IV. ARIZONA: THE JESUITS IN PIMERIA ALTA

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