The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (Histories of the American Frontier)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780826306036 (0826306039)
Publish date: June 1st 1982
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Pages no: 440
Edition language: English
Before the American Southwest was the American Southwest it was the northern frontier of Mexico, representing a third of the territory of the country after its leaders declared their independence from Span in 1821. What the region was like in the quarter century between its possession by Spain and i...