Published by the University of Texas Press. 1991. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberto M. Hinojosa. Condition: Used, good condition.
An absorbing social history of the lives of the intrepid settlers who rallied around their traditional institutions–mission centers, municipalities, and the military arm of the crown–to secure the northernmost frontier of New Spain and to convert the land, as much as they were capable, into a productive segment of the empire.
