SPANISH HISTORY IN THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL COUNTRY Florida to California
Following are excellent books by recognized authorities.
Facts, dates, and other information carefully stated. There is a wealth ox literature and history of the Spanish Period but much of it too general for the average student. These suggestions Till be improved as the value of later histories arc more clearly understood. As a group the following cover the southern United States quite nicely.
One book, the SOUTHERN BORDERLANDS, by Herbert E. Bolton, is a complete and dependable basic study of the Spanish history, Florida to California. (1931-Textbook .Ed. Ya.lc University Press)
For additional reading, the old chronicles arc the actual stories of those Spanish pioneers and padres. The more important chronicles Till be found translated, indexed, and vith explanatory introductions, notes and maps, in those books published by Scribners......
SPANISH EXPLORERS IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES, 1528-1543, and companion book.
SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1542-1706.
For old chronicles in th^ East, see.....
HIST. COLLECTIONS OF LOUISIANA AND FLORID-, 1527-1702 (1875) by B.F. French. The notes and comments by the author arc not dependable; the book is valuable for its old reports.
The folloving recent studies arc good, 2 vols. by Woodbury Lorry, published 1901 and 1905.......
SPANISH SETTLEMENTS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, 1513-1561.
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Standnrd books quite generally accessible arc......
PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN'THE NSW WORLD, by Francis Parkman, for the Spanish-French contests in Florida and the East, and Old Louisiana. HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT'S Works, for Not Mexico, Arizona, California and Mexico.
A recent excellent book is the HISTORY OF CaLIFORNIa, Spanish Period, by Chapman (MacMillan's, 1926) for Upper and Lower
California, Arizona, and nor threat Mexico---ail seme sphere of
activity.
Any book about the old missions pill help tell that story of those great and humane efforts to lead the Indians into a Christian and industrious citizenship—the missions spread from the southern United States to southern South America—missionary and industrial enterprises without parallel in the history of the world.
There arc several books about EL DOR—DO (The Gilded Chief),—that long and romantic search for a golden fairland. The Spaniards sought the Cities of Gold, the Gilded Chief, the Gran ^uivira,the Temple of the Sun and other mythical stores of wealth. They did find fabulous riches. The Indians were shrewd in leading the invaders into perilous adventure. The tales of those searches are a part of the ancient Spanish story.
HARRAL AYRES, President GUNTER HOTEL	Old	Spanish	Trail
San Antonio, Texas November 1351.
(A book is ready for publication that brings the story of those three centuries of Spanish Occupation to compact and popular form)