This documentary history contains original and annotated translations of documents dealing with presidios. Contains materials for the history of discovery, conquest, and settlement of the central corridor of eastern Nueva Vizcaya, New Mexico, and Texas between 1700-65

Includes maps of: Northern New Spain; Central Corridor During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century; Nuevo Mexico After the Reconquest; Route Followed by the Villasur Expedition; Texas During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century; Route Followed by the Aguayo Expedition of 1720-1722

v. 1. 1570-1700 -- v. 2., pt. 1. The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora, 1700-1765 -- v. 2, pt. 2. The central corridor and the Texas corridor, 1700-1765.