Beyond the Devil's Road: Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest Volume 8

by Jeremy Beer

The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of Spanish imperial expansion. Beyond the Devil's Road tells, for the first time, the full story of this extraordinary man's epic life and journey and his critical place in the history of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080619457X
• ISBN13: 9780806194578
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 474 Pages