The Mapping of the Entradas Into the Greater Southwest

by Dennis Reinhartz

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated volume edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, five leading scholars in history, geography, and cartography discuss the role Spanish explorers and mapmakers played in bringing knowledge of the New World to Europe. The entradas, of P nfilo de Narv ez and Alvar N nez Cabeza de Vaca (1527-37), Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco V squez de Coronado (1539-42), and Hernando de Soto and Luis de Moscoso...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806130474
• ISBN13: 9780806130477
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"