Spain in the Southwest Quotes

“After an unauthorized stop on the Cuban coast, the seasoned pilot pointed her bow for the fast-moving waters of the Florida Straits. After that, for three hundred years most of the inestimable treasure of the New World, along with the transshipped Oriental luxury goods of the Manila trade, would follow in the wake of Antón de Alaminos.”
― John L. Kessell, Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California