University of New Mexico Press

IntroductionPatricia A. Peters The AuthorSor (Sister) Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/517-1695), canonized by literary historians of Spain's Golden Age, but not by the church she served, is considered the last great practitioner in Spanish poetry of the baroque style, which dominated European...

Preface This sixteenth-century odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca's is one of the great true epics of history. It is the semi- ( oiRcial report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried. Four out of a land-force of 300...

Foreword "Somos la raza amarga" (We are a bitter race), say Sonorans half-joldngly about themselves. Or of their homeland, "Sonora: where civilization ends and carne a-sada [grilled skirt steak] begins." And thanks be to God that it is so! The Mexican state that borders Arizona on the south is...