Documentos Historicos Sobre Durango

Resumen del Libro

Noteworthy topics concern the military and colonizing activities of Francisco de Ibarra, governor of New Galicia, including two Mss. by Faustino Chimalpopocatl Galicia on Aztec participation in the 1563 expedition into New Vizcaya and distribution of duties among the Indians of Nombre de Dios, missionary work of the 16th and 17th centuries, with special attention to the Jesuits, Gonzalo de Tapia and Martín Pérez and Luis Velarde and from the history of Andrés Pérez de Rivas, establishment of Nombre de Dios, the Ávila-Santarén colonizing and missionary expedition, extracts from Juan Agustín Morfis Viage de Indios relating to Teodoro de Croix, data on mining, powers of the Commandant General of the Provincias Internas, Antonio Corderos report on the Apaches, and an expediente on the powers of Jacobo de Ugarte as commandant general.