New Spain's far northern frontier : [electronic resource] essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821 / David J. Weber, editor.

Reprint. Originally published : University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index.

[1.] Relevance: The significance of the Spanish borderlands to the United States / Donald E. Worcester -- [2.] Exploration: The search for the fabulous in the settlement of the Southwest / George P. Hammond -- Spanish scientific exploration along the Pacific coast / Donald C. Cutter -- [3.] Institutions: The mission as a frontier institution in the Spanish American colonies / Herbert Eugene Bolton -- The Presidio : fortress or farce? / Odie B. Faulk -- The ranching frontier : Spanish institutional backgrounds of Plains cattle industry / Sandra L. Myres -- Settlement patterns and village plans in colonial New Mexico / Marc Simmons -- [4.] Society: California's Hispanic heritage: a view into the Spanish myth / Manuel Patricio Servin -- Comparative demographic analysis of Texas, 1777-1793 / Alicia Vidaurreta Tjarks -- [5.] Frontier influences: The California frontier / C. Alan Hutchinson -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / Silvio Zavala -- [6.] Eighteenth-century changes: The north of New Spain as a political problem in the eighteenth century / Luis Navarro Garcia ; translated by Elizabeth Gard and David J. Weber -- Spanish Indian policy in northern Mexico, 1765-1810 / Joseph F. Park -- [7.] Indians as actors: Shifting for survival in the Spanish Southwest / Albert H. Schroeder -- Indians and the breakdown of the Spanish mission system in California / George Harwood Phillips -- [8.] Cultural tradition: The flowering and decline of the New Mexican santero, 1780-1900 / William Wroth -- [9.] More relevance: Spaniards, environment, and the Pepsi generation / John L. Kessell -- "Scarce more than apes" : historical roots of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans / David J. Weber.