To the Corner of the Province

Deni Seymour is a full-time research archaeologist affiliated with two academic institutions and Jornada Research Institute, but operates as an independent scholar. She has authored several books. Seymour is a leading regional specialist deeply familiar with material culture, landscape, settlement patterning, and the documentary record. Oscar Rodriguez grew up on the Texas-Mexico border and is a life-long speaker of both Spanish and English. He has worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations on projects throughout Latin America and also serves as tribal historian for the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas.

Seymour is without peer in her ability to weave archaeological, cartographic, documentary, and ethnographic evidence into this story. This is an important work of scholarship that will be appreciated and debated, and thereby elevate our understanding of the Southwest Borderlands of Arizona and Sonora. Her detailed and precise supporting evidence, whether cartographic or archaeological, will make this book the latest word, if probably not the final word, in our discussions of the region in the late eighteenth century." -James F. Brooks, professor of history and anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara