Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1990
Abstract
This report on the northern provinces of New Spain was written in 1799 by Jose Maria Cortes, a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Engineers.Cortes, an intelligent and keen observer, relied on personal observations and archival research to describe the Apaches and other Indian groups of the trans-Mississippi West.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly SPRING 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.