"The sheer breadth and depth of the research collected in this volume makes it a must-have for any scholar of colonial Latin America, the US borderlands, and exploration history."—H-LatAm
“Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint [. . .] analyze this complex, intensely ordered enterprise every which way, placing it deftly in the sixteenth-century world of Europe, America, and Asia.”—John L. Kessell, author of Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont