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(0)John Francis Bannon
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A history of the Spanish borderlands in North America describes the travels of the conquistador explorers, continuing through three centuries of mission, presidio, and town development in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; explaining the increasing clashes with the Anglo-American frontier, including the international rivalries involving the English, French, and even Russian pressures that affected the frontier.
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In the early years of the 20th century, Herbert Eugene Bolton opened up a new frontier in the study of American history. The Spanish borderlands, long neglected or passed over by Anglo-American historians, became his special field of endeavor. Bolton's research took him to the archives of Mexico, where he found a wealth of unpublished, even unknown, material which threw new light on the early history of the North American continent, particularly of...