Miera Y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

by John L. Kessell

Book Overview

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera's complex life in cinematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806151870
• ISBN13: 9780806151878
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"