Noticias Sacadas de un Mss. Intitulado Relaciones de todas las cosas que en el Nuevo Mexico se han visto y sabido asi por mar como por tierra desde el ano 1538 hasta el de 1626

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Author: Ramirez, Jose Fernando (1804-1871) from the library of professor George M Foster Year: 1949 Publisher: Biblioteca Aportacion Historica Place: Mexico City Description: 72 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6 1/2") issued in wrappers. The rest of the title reads Fr. Geronimo de Zarate S Predicador de la Orden de los Menores de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio;dirigidas a Ntro Rmo. Pe Fre Francisco de Apodaca, Comisario General de todas las de esta Neueva Espana. Extractadas por Jose F Ramirez . Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportaci�n Hist�rica second series. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 51. Among the documents which the royal decree of February 21, 1790, ordered to be copied and sent to Spain was the well-known work entitled Las relaciones del Nuevo Mexico by Geronimo de Zarate Salmeron, A Franciscan. This important source composed in 1626 by one who had accompanied Juan de Onate to New Mexico, was copied into the second volume of the Memorias de Nueva Espana . One of these copies of Zarate's account is preserved in the second volume of the section "Historia" of the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico city. It was firs printed in the third series of the Documentos para la Historia de Mexico (Mexico City, 1856). Jose Fernando Ramirez was a distinguished Mexican historian in the 19th century. Ramirez was born in Parral, Chihuahua but grew up in Durango, where he became a prominent liberal politician. After graduat

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