The Spanish Frontier in North America (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David J. Weber
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1513-1821
- Setting: The American Southwest
- Principal Characters: Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Juan de Oñate, Marques de Rubí, Bernardo de Gálvez, Jose de Gálvez, Junípero Serra
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Colonies or colonization, Native Americans or American Indians, Idealism, Southwest, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
The Spanish frontier in North America was neither wholly Spanish nor wholly a frontier, at least not in the sense Americans usually have of Frederick Jackson Turner’s woodland frontier zone. It was not wholly Spanish because the invaders who entered the northern region from bases in Cuba and Mexico did not represent the full variety of Spanish culture: They came from peripheral areas in the homeland (Minorca, the Canaries) and in New Spain; they represented only a few classes (mostly soldiers and priests); and they were too few to impose even their language on the mass of Native...
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