Remote Beyond Compare; Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706

Kessell, John L.

ISBN 10: 0826311121 / ISBN 13: 9780826311122

Published by University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1989

About this Item

Inscribed to Roland and Peg Dickey from Editor John Kessell and Research Consultant Eleanor Adams.

Seller Inventory # 3795

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remote Beyond Compare; Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706
• Publisher: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826311121
• ISBN 13: 9780826311122
• Binding: Leatherette
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Fine in Fine Acetate Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Southwest US

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Synopsis

This book, originally published in 1989 and long unavailable, is reissued in conjunction with the completed multi-volume translation of the official correspondence of don Diego De Vargas, late seventeenth-century governor and re-colonizer of New Mexico. These personal letters not only illuminate their author but the history of New Mexico as don Diego experienced it. Like the Journals of don Diego de Vargas, this volume reflects years of document collection, translation, and annotation by the Vargas Project directed by John L. Kessell.

About the Author

Historian John L. Kessell, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, has devoted nearly two decades compiling, translating, and editing the Vargas papers along with Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller.