Documentary Relations of the Southwest鈥擟ivil-Military
University of Arizona Press
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A series on civil-military relations that includes material on the development of the presidial system, colonial land use, water systems, mining, transportation, frontier protection,听exploration, and accounts of early European contact with both semi-nomadic and sedentary native peoples. This is a bilingual presentation of selected documents relating to native cultures,听Spanish colonial expansion, and missionary activities along the southwestern frontier from 1570 to 1820.