Atop a sheer rock in the New Mexico mesa land stands Ácoma, the pueblo of the Keres people that astonished the first Spanish explorers. Drawing on Spanish diaries and later historians, the book follows the early expeditions from New Spain, the battle in the Sky City, its rebuilding, the mission of Father Ramírez and the pueblo’s social life.
A readable history of one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in North America. Download the free EPUB.