Remote Beyond Compare Letters of Don Diego De Vargas to His Family from New Spain and New Mexico, 1675-1706

This book, originally published in 1989 and long unavailable, is reissued in conjunction with the completed multi-volume translation of the official correspondence of don Diego De Vargas, late seventeenth-century governor and re-coloniser of New Mexico. These personal letters not only illuminate their author but the history of New Mexico as don Diego experienced it. Like the Journals of don Diego de Vargas, this volume reflects years of document collection, translation, and annotation by the Vargas Project directed by John L Kessell.Kessell, John L. is the author of 'Remote Beyond Compare Letters of Don Diego De Vargas to His Family from New Spain and New Mexico, 1675-1706' with ISBN 9780826311122 and ISBN 0826311121.