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Charts the histories of the California missions of Santa Barbara, La Purisima Concepcion, and Santa Ines, and briefly describes life among the Chumash Indians b

After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession

This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the relig

Have you visited one or more of the Old Spanish California Missions? Read about the author s journey through all of the twenty-one Missions in California along

Studies of the Spanish conquest in the Americas traditionally have explained European-Indian encounters in terms of such factors as geography, timing, and the c