A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799

by Mark Santiago

Book Overview

This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the Mescalero Apache attacks on the Spanish beginning in 1795 a sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict. He argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806167440
• ISBN13: 9780806167442
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"