Esteban

The African Slave Who Explored America

By Dennis Herrick
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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In this work Herrick dispels the myths and outright lies about Esteban. His biography emphasizes Esteban rather than the Spaniards whose exploits are often exaggerated and jingoistic in the sixteenth-century chronicles.

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Dennis Herrick

Dennis Herrick, a former newspaper reporter, editor, and publisher, is a lecturer emeritus of journalism at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles and short stories, many of them about the Southwest and its Indian peoples. Herrick lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

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  • Publisher: UNM Press (October 15, 2023)
  • Length: 304 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826365644

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A well-crafted and thorough synthesis of the existing documentary evidence and the most recent scholarly speculations regarding the life of the black African Moor who played a pivotal role in the earliest Spanish reconnaissance of what is now the southern United States and northwest Mexico.--Richard Flint, author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada

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Esteban

The African Slave Who Explored America

By Dennis Herrick
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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