About the Author

Max Moorehead was David Ross Boyd professor emeritus of history at the University of Oklahoma. He was the author of The Presidio:Bastion of the Spanish Borderlands and editor of Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Reviews

Max L. Moorhead . . . tells us at the outset that his institutional study of the presidio on New Spain's northern frontier is meant 'to define the subject more sharply, to determine more fully its impact on the human environment, and to date the several presidios and fix their locations more precisely than has been done in the past.' . . . Moorhead does well what he said he would do. He makes the shot. If another measure of good history is its suggestion of further topics, he has scored twice with one book."" - Pacific Historical Review

""Throughout his career Moorhead's work has been the epitome of historical scholarship; he has set standards for others to reach. Presidio fits this mold. . . . Moorhead has not only a firm grip on his source material but also an incisive understanding of the Spanish mind."" - Journal of American History