No settlement, No Conquest: A history of the Coronado Entrada

Between 1539 and 1542, and unarmed convoy led by Spanish explorers ventured through the American Southwest.   The goal of this mission, was to seize control of the indigenous people of the region and to attempt to convert them to a sixteenth-century Spanish model of life. 

Author Richard Flint incorporates recent archaelogical and documentary discoveries to offer a new interpretation of how Spaniards attempted to conquer the New World and insights on the indigenous communities who resisted conquest. 

• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages