STORMS BREWED IN OTHER MEN'S WORLDS: THE CONFRONTATION OF INDIANS SPANISH AND FRENCH IN THE SOUTHWEST 1540-1795

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Spanning two and a half centuries from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 17908 Storms Brewed in Other Mens Worlds is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian ranging from the Caddos in the east to the Hopis in the west and including the histories of the Pueblo Apache Navajo Ute and Wichita peoples. Within this region from Texas to New Mexico the Comanches played a key formative role and no less compelling is the story of the Hispanic frontier peoples who weathered the precarious often arduous process of evolving coexistence with the Indians on the northern frontier of New Spain. First published in 1975 this second edition includes a new preface and afterword by Elizabeth A. H. John in which she discusses current research issues and the status of the Indian peoples of the Southwest.