Recreates in text and photographs the day-to-day life of a pioneer family living in a newly-formed Spanish settlement in the Southwest during the eighteenth century.
Each day Antonio's Mam? tries to get everyone to sit down together to eat, but someone is always busy elsewhere, until the family celebrates a new arrival.
In 1615, a friar sent to Santa Fe by the Viceroy of New Spain meets a boy who shares his concern for the local Indians and who helps him determine the future of this small outpost town.
Simple text and photographs examine the history of St. Augustine, Florida, describing the early Spanish settlers as well as Native and African-Americans who lived there.
Examines the sixteenth-century explorations of Spanish conquistadors in the southwestern region of North America, and discusses the discoveries they made while in search of the legendary cities of gold.
Examines the explorations of Juan Ponce de Leon and other Spanish conquistadors in Florida and the southwestern region of what is now the United States, and discusses the founding of St. Augustine by Pedro Menendez de Aviles.
Describes Saint Augustine's founding of his namesake settlement, covering life in sixteenth-century St. Augustine; the mission system; and Florida before the Europeans' arrival.