Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains - Paperback

by Herbert E. Bolton (Author), John L. Kessell (Foreword by)

Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.

Author Biography

Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953) taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1911 to 1944. His numerous books established him as the premiere historian of Spain in North America.

John L. Kessell, a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, is the author or editor of many books, including Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain to New Mexico, 1675-1706 (UNM Press).