The Spanish Frontier in North America is a nonfiction book written by historian David J. Weber.
Weber followed the school of thought initiated by historian Herbert Eugene Bolton, that American history should not be centered solely around the expansion of the original thirteen colonies.
[1] In a departure from Bolton's model, Weber also examined the lives of the Indians and mestizos in the region and their impact on the frontier.
Their legacy was extended to modern times, as Weber shows how the Chicano movement of the mid-twentieth century adopted some older legends.
[2] Spanish Frontier won the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for best nonfiction book of 1992.