Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Nick Myers for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona!

In 1765, as part of a royal inspection of the Kingdom of New Spain, Visitador General José de Gàlvez travelled to the far northern reaches of Spanish colonization in North America. Gálvez was charged with enacting fundamental reforms in the systems of defense and taxation across the Viceroyalty as a whole. This talk will relate the strange story of the royal visita to the northern frontier and uncover the roots of the regions peculiarity, wildly diverse population, and prevalence of political autonomy that characterized the western portion of today’s U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in the Spanish Colonial Era.

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