Jar of Severed Hands: Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810

by Mark Santiago

Book Overview

More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago's gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico. To persuade the Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian "civilization,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806164565
• ISBN13: 9780806164564
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"