Juan Domínguez de Mendoza
488 pages, 7 x 10
Paperback
Release Date:21 Feb 2023
ISBN:9780826351166
Juan Domínguez de Mendoza
Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693
Edited by France V. Scholes, Marc Simmons, and José Antonio Esquibel; Translated by Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes
SERIES:
Coronado Historical Series
University of New Mexico Press
Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado Historical Series, recognizes the career of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, a soldier-colonist who was as instrumental as any governor or friar in shaping Hispano-Indian society in New Mexico. Domínguez de Mendoza served in New Mexico from age thirteen to fifty-eight as a stalwart defender of Spain's interests during the troubled decades before the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Because of his successful career, the archives of Mexico and Spain provide extensive information on his activities. The documents translated in this volume reveal more cooperative relations between Spaniards and Pueblo Indians than previously understood.
France V. Scholes was a historian at the University of New Mexico who played a significant role in unearthing Spanish colonial documents about New Mexico. Eleanor B. Adams was a translator and historian who edited the New Mexico Historical Review for many years. Marc Simmons is a historian and the author of over forty books, among them New Mexico: An Interpretive History and Coronado’s Land (both by UNM Press). José Antonio Esquibel is a genealogical researcher and contributor to several books on Southwest history.
