The Last Sorcerer (Paperback) von JohnKessell Veröffentlicht 2020 von Lightning Source Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-646-81991-4, ISBN: 0-646-81991-7
Freedom Beach(1st Edition) von James Patrick Kelly, JohnKessell Paperback, 272 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1987 von Harpercollins Publishers Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-04-823385-1, ISBN: 0-04-823385-4
"SCIENCE FICTION-SHAWN REED WOKE UP ON FREEDOM BEACH.IY LOOKED LIKE PARADISE.PERHAPS IT WAS.BUT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER DYING-IN FACT,HE DIDN'T REMEMBER MUCH AT ALL.AND WHAT SORT OF PARADISE WAS FULL OF TALKING STATUES,AND SOME REALLY WEIRD LAWS?AND WHY DID EVERYONE THERE SEEM TO BE FROM HIS HALF REMEMBERED PAST?PERHAPS HE WAS IN HELL.AND THEN HE STARTED TO HAVE SOME VERY BIZARRE DREAMS,NONE OF WHICH HE WOULD HAVE CHOSEN HIMSELF.IF FREEDOM BE ..."
"In 2010, Santa Fe officially turned 400--four centuries of a rich and contentious history of Indian, Spanish, and American interactions. Pueblo Indians settled along the banks of the Río Santa Fe as long ago as the sixth century CE. By 1610, Spanish colonists had established the town as a distant outpost in Spain's expanding empire. Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and historical research, this updated edition of a classic h ..."
"Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and historical research, this updated edition of a classic history details the town's founding, its survival through revolt and reconquest, its turbulent politics, its lively trade with Mexico ..."
The Pure Product von JohnKessell Paperback, 384 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86680-8, ISBN: 0-312-86680-1
"Nebula Award-winner John Kessel brings together, for the first time in one volume, nineteen of his finest stories from the past decade: an extraordinary body of work by one of the field's most accomplished writers."
"For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived "together yet apart." Now the preeminent historian of that region's colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native American Eden and the Black Legend of Spa ..."
"Both mature professionals, they fell in love with childlike glee. John and Dorothy had met briefly in New Jersey. A medical doctor from Australia, he was en route to the British Isles to further his education. Friends of Dorothy, also a doctor, had fixed them up on a blind date neither looked forward to. Yet they had fun. When she decided on a summer vacation in England, her best friend and traveling companion Helen broke her leg at the ..."
Spain in the Southwest(2nd Edition) A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California von John L. Kessell Paperback, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3484-0, ISBN: 0-8061-3484-4
"John L. Kessell's "Spain in the Southwest" presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain's vast frontier--today's American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire.Chronicling the period of H ..."
"The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico-still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776-an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony. "The Missions of New Mexico, 1776," impeccably translated and edited by distinguished historians Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Angelico Chavez, i ..."
"Both mature professionals, they fell in love with childlike glee. John and Dorothy had met briefly in New Jersey. A medical doctor from Australia, he was en route to the British Isles to further his education. Friends of Dorothy, also a doctor, had fixed them up on a blind date neither looked forward to. Yet they had fun. When she decided on a summer vacation in England, her best friend and traveling companion Helen broke her leg at the ..."
Shepherds of Astaran von Kessell, John Paperback, 302 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von J K Kessell ISBN-13: 978-0-646-87433-3, ISBN: 0-646-87433-0
Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767-1856 (Century Collection) von John L. Kessell Paperback, 365 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-3528-6, ISBN: 0-8165-3528-0
"The Franciscan mission San Jose de Tumacacori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona Sonora frontier in this colorful documentary history. His fascinating view extends from the Jesuit expulsion to the coming of the U.S. Army. Kessell provides exciting accounts of the explorations of Francisco Garces, de Anza's expeditions, and the Yuma massacre. Drawing from widely scattered archi ..."
Spain in the Southwest(1st Edition) A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California von John L. Kessell Hardcover, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2002 von University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3407-9, ISBN: 0-8061-3407-0
"John L. Kessells "Spain in the Southwest" presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spains vast frontier--todays American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire. Chronicling the period ..."
Coronado(4th Edition) Knight of Pueblos and Plains von Herbert Eugene Bolton, John L. Kessell Paperback, 491 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1990 von University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0007-2, ISBN: 0-8263-0007-3
"Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body of Indian allies, Coronado and his men--the first Europeans to explore what are now Arizona and New Mexico--continued on to the buffalo-co ..."
Miera y Pacheco A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico von John L. Kessell Hardcover, 218 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4377-4, ISBN: 0-8061-4377-0
"Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (17131785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera’s complex life ..."
Shepherds of Astaran von Kessell, John Softcover, Veröffentlicht 2022 von J K Kessell ISBN-13: 978-0-646-86270-5, ISBN: 0-646-86270-7
"For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native American Eden and the Black Legend of Spa ..."
Kiva, Cross, & Crown(2nd Edition) The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840 von John L. Kessell Paperback, 304 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1995 von Western Natl Parks Assoc ISBN-13: 978-1-877856-56-3, ISBN: 1-877856-56-8
"Although Gonzalez Bernal surely had predecessors as "alcalde mayor and
military chief of Galisteo and its district," their names arc lost. In the
documentation for Lopez de Mendizabal's residen- cia, there is a packet of two
dozen letters from him to ... carpenters from that district are here, among them
Miguel, to finish seating these doors and windows. Likewise that there are thirty
Indians, ten from Galisteo, ten from San Cristo ..."