Description

The Governors and the Franciscans contains the only, at least, up to the moment {there must be something beyond narrative and primary documents} chronological record "The history of the province from the fall of Acoma on December 4, 1598, to the great revolt of 1680, can never be made complete, for lack of data." ---George Bancroft, Bancroft Public Library, Berkeley, California."]

"An accurate account of the building of Santa Fe and annals from founding of Villa down to the Peublo Revolt of 1680 will probably never be written."] --Ralph Twitchell Santa Fe, New Mexico} of the explicit as well as implicit; un-real as well as real; subjective as well as objective; and ideal as well as representative history of New Mexico; and as such paralells the juirisdiction of the three principal Spaniish law decrees of the sixteenth century.