The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest by Marc Simmons

The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest

Oklahoma Western Biographies #2

Marc Simmons

224 pages • first pub 1991 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative fast-paced
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This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Oñate, 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 fa...

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