FLQ-PH Pobladores: Hispanic Americans on the Ute Frontier. Frances Leon Quintana Ph.D. Notre Dame Press, 1991. Paper $16

This book tells the story of the Spanish-speaking pioneers who settled the Chama Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their descendants who spread northward into the New Mexico-Colorado borderlands. This is a revised edition of Los Primeros Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier (Norte Dame Press 1974) by Frances Leon Swadesh and is used as a text for SW Studies courses. Paper back, 285 pps., notes, bibliography, illustrations.

An invaluable resource for Hispanic and Native American history in the Southwest, Pobladores traces the settlement of the San Juan Basin and the Chama Valley of New Mexico and Colorado from Spanish colonial times to the modern era, documenting the long-term contact between settlers and Indians, particularly Genízaros and Utes.

In the dedication to his work, Captives and Cousins, the president of the School for Advanced Research, historian James Brooks, called the author of Pobladores "Frances Leon Quintana, a woman of vision." Recognized for her work by the Center for Southwest Research and by the New Mexico State Historian, Quintana studied at the Yale School of Linguistics under Edward Sapir, later receiving her doctorate from the University of Colorado under Omer Stewart. She served as the Curator of Ethnology at the New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology. Intimately familiar with local history, she provided a warm and personalized insight into Hispanic and Ute life from colonial days into the present. The book is used as a text for Southwest studies courses.