Author : W. W. H. Davis
Release : 2015-06-26
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Download or read book The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico written by W. W. H. Davis. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico The conquest of that portion of tho North American continent lately the province, now the territory, of New Mexico, and which the United States acquired from Mexico under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, is an unpublished page in Spanish-American history. The historian has overlooked this field of early adventure and given his attention to what seemed a more inviting banquet, thus depriving the world of one of the most interesting relations of incidents to be met with in the record of early explorations in the New World. The earliest mention of Spaniards penetrating into New Mexico is found in the journal of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca written in the first half of the sixteenth century. He wad an officer of the unfortunate expedition of Narvaez, and with three companions was wandering nearly ten years across the continent, at the end of which time he reached the Spanish settlements on the gulf of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.