Download or read book The North Frontier of New Spain written by Peter Gerhard and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revision of the first edition published by Princeton in 1982, Gerhard traces the advance of the Spaniards up the Gulf and Pacific coasts of Mesoamerica and across the great central plateau of northern Mexico, and their confrontations with the native populations of those areas.