Review of Views From the Apache Frontier: Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain

Authors

Ralph H. Vigil, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1990

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SPRING 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

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.