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- W104183898 abstract "The history of Spanish activities in North America during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries is one of geography as much as anything else. Particularly germane in this regard were distances and environmental amenities. Not only was the center of Spain's colonial power in the northern hemisphere of the New World-Mexico City-5,300 miles and an ocean away from the home land, but the most important settlements on the frontier-San Antonio, Santa Fe, and San Francisco-were yet another 900, 1500, and 2,400 miles away, and 700 miles and 1,100, miles apart, respectively. Were distances not problem enough, what was in this remote land that was of interest, much less of importance, to either the Spanish crownor its citizens? Little, if anything; and herein lie the reasons why Spanish endeavors eventually failed. To be sure, Spain quickly claimed vast territories in the 1500s. It then reached out and attempted to make Christian citizens out of the region's native inhabitants and to profit from the land's bounty. Given that much of the indigenous population died-off quickly after contact due to the lack of immunity to Old World pathogens, and that little was actually found in the way of mineral resources, particularly gold and silver, North America was a singularly uninviting place to people of Iberian heritage. Most of the so-called Spaniards who did find themselves there were actually born in what is today Mexico, typically of mixed Indian-European parentage. These people could not return to Spain, and probably would have preferred to remain in the relative comfort of the better-settled parts of New Spain if they could. Going to the northern frontier, regardless of the reasons why, was, as illustrated by Oakah L. Jones, Jr., in Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain (1979), a one-way ticket, and a less than desirable one at that. It was figuratively and literally the end of the line. The Spanish crown figured out early on that the social and economic advantages of the region were next to nonexistent. Why then did it struggle so" @default.
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- W104183898 title "The End of the Line, the Line at the End" @default.
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