Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition
by
Rebecca A. Carte
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The son of an encomendero, Baltasar Obregón was twenty years old when he joined the 1564 expedition led by the first governor of Nueva Vizcaya, Francisco de Ibarra. The purpose of the expedition was to establish mining settlements in the borderlands of New Spain and to suppress indigenous rebellions...