“A genuine addition to our knowledge of initial Spanish settlement. It will become essential background reading for all scholars working on the early colonial period in the Southwest.”—Journal of Anthropological Research
“This is a book not only for the serious student of northern New Spain, but also for anyone interested in the captivating history of the Spanish Empire on the frontier of the Greater Southwest in the seventeenth century. It should be considered a landmark in the scholarship on that region.”—Terrae Incognitae