Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1993
Abstract
The subjects addressed in this book are familiar ones: Spanish exploration of the American Southwest and eastward through the Great Plains, and French exploration westward from Louisiana. According to the jacket blurb, William Brandon offers "a closely written synthesis" of these explorations, examining them through a lens provided by a region that he variously calls a frontier and an ancient trade route. Unfortunately, while much of Quivira is synthesis, written as a gossipy digest of historical events occurring in an ever-enlarging region during a three-hundred-year period; little of it is "closely written."
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:1 (Winter 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.