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The Last Conquistador, Volume 2: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest by Marc Simmons

shiradest's review

3.0

A rather biased book, imho, given his frequent lauding of the 'accomplishments' of the Spaniards in general in colonizing what he calls, several times, barren wilderness. I suspect that those already living in the area might have disagreed that the Spaniards were discovering anything, and certainly resented the idea that they were to humbly convert to the religion of and pay tribute for the priveledge to their conquerers.

adding notes
p. 21 "Their case exemplifies one of the imponderables in the human condition." Nice point, but I no longer recall to what he was referring...

p. 65 "Hidalgo-mania" reminds me of the Tiempo de Picaros episode of EMdT (http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/programa/emdt-6-280315/3066559/)

p. 97 "out of raw wilderness" -but there were people already living quite well there, so not quite so "raw" as to white eyes!!

p. 98 stimulating their immune systems for the love of the Church...