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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico.(Brief article)(Book review)
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January 1, 2009
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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico
John L. Kessell
University of Oklahoma Press
2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069
9780806139692, $24.95 www.oupress.com 1-800-627-7377
Written by John L. Kessell (Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Mexico) Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico is a narrative history of the seventeenth century of New Mexico, accurately portraying ...
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