Explorers, traders, and slavers : forging the old Spanish Trail, 1678-1850 / Joseph P. Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Joseph P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian traders--Southwest, New--History.

Indian traders.

Slave traders--Southwest, New--History.

Slave traders.

Discoveries in geography.

History.

Old Spanish Trail--History.

Old Spanish Trail.

Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Southwest, New.

New Southwest.

Physical Description:

xi, 186 pages, 11 pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [1997]

Summary:

Historiographically, the main account of the Old Spanish Trail and its variants is Leroy and Ann Hafen's Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles (1954). The Hafens, however, overlooked Hispanic efforts to open the trail. This book corrects that oversight. Joseph P. Sanchez describes the Spanish search for mythical Teguayo and the Spanish-Mexican explorers, traders, and slavers who traveled through the Yuta country. This rigorous and entertaining volume demonstrates the significance of the Old Spanish Trail and its variants as not just a sidebar to Anglo western expansion, but as an integral and fascinating page of our national story.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index.

ISBN:

0874805260

OCLC:

35808302