Description
This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the US. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative, Mark Santiago argues that this was a period of sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict.
“Mark Santiago's engaging and valuable new study holds lessons for students and historians of the Spanish borderlands and small-unit military operations, but also for anyone interested in twenty-first-century irregular and guerrilla warfare.” – Michigan War Studies Review
Mark Santiago is Director of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces and the author of Massacre at the Yuma Crossing: Spanish Relations with the Quechans, 1779-1782.