The Spanish Frontier
in North America
by David J. Weber
$27 (602 page paperback) 

This prize winning book is the definitive history of the Spanish Colonial Period in North America.  It was the recipient of the following awards:  the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for a nonfiction book, the 1993 Caughey Western History Association Prize for an outstanding book on the history of the American West, The 1993 Carr P. Collins Award given by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of nonfiction, and the 1992 "Spain and the America in the Quincentennial of the Discovery" prize awarded by the Embassy of Spain.