"Historians have agreed that the Spanish conquest of the Indies was accomplished by men, horses, and dogs, in that order. The men have inspired hundreds of books; the horses, a few; the dogs, none until now. This book tells their story and that of their Spanish masters. It has been claimed that the reputed cruelty of the Conquest was the exaggeration of a zealous friar, Bartolomé de las Casas, and indeed hyperbole characterizes most early accounts...