The Spanish frontier in North America
From the Publisher: In 1513, when Ponce de Leon stepped ashore on a beach of what is now Florida, Spain gained its first foothold in North America. For the next three hundred years, Spaniards ranged through the continent building forts to defend strategic places, missions to proselytize Indians, an...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. |
| Edition: | The brief ed. |
| Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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