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Boards & cloth paper spine label, slight wear mark, new end papers, 184 pages bibliography & appendices, +119 halftone and 11 line illustrations. Clean and tight. PREFATORY - ONE of the most interesting, instructive, and romantic chapters of American history was written by the Brown Friars of the Order of San Francisco. Unarmed, and led by a compelling religious zeal, these Soldiers of the Cross carried the torch of civilization far into the uncharted wilds of New Spain, where they cheerfully accepted hardships, privations, and perils that they might teach the religion of the Carpenter of Nazareth and the crafts of civilized life to the untamed savage. Yet no other chapter of our history is so persistently ignored by the general historian and, consequently, so little known to the general reader. We are familiar with the careers of the old French Jesuits-Joliet, Hennepin, Marquette, Tonti-in the St. Lawrence and Mississippi valleys, but the splendid work of such men as Kino, Garces, Benavides, Margil, Serra, and Lasuen, carried forward over a period of two centuries in the southwestern portion of our country, is almost unknown outside the states in which these men laboured. The special historian, however, has written voluminously upon the work of the Spanish padres in our Southwest, and the student desiring an intimate knowledge of this part of our history finds abundant material available. But the general reader has been somewhat ignored, inasmuch as no single volume covers more than one of the four mission fields, and no one author ever has covered more than two of the fields. A desire to condense the voluminous literature of the subject into a story succinct enough to appeal to the average busy man and woman led to the preparation of the present little volume, and as such the writer believes it fills a hitherto unfilled gap. Its preparation has been a self-imposed task and an agreeable one, to which he has turned his attention, as opportunity offered, for sixteen years. He acknowledges his indebtedness to Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, Dr. L. B. Prince, Dr. G. W. James, Mr. Prent Duell, Mr. R. E. Twitchell, Prof. Bernard Moses, and Mr. Robert Sturmberg, whose researches in mission history were freely consulted in the final preparation of this little volume. Acknowledgments also are due Mrs. R. C. Reid, of Dexter, New Mexico, Mr. Lawrence Daingerfield, of Houston, Texas, Prof. Byron Cummings, of Tucson, Arizona, and Mr. James H. Jarboe, of San Antonio, Texas, in recognition of assistance cheerfully and generously given. In selecting the mission photographs, in which every existing mission church and every important feature of mission architecture is depicted, the author had the valued assistance of Mrs. Mary R. van Stone, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mr. Harold Taylor, of Coronado, California, Messrs. C. C. Pierce and Palmer Gillette, of Los Angeles, California, and Messrs. Harvey Patteson, Ernst Raba, and G. D. Sanders, of San Antonio, Texas. Through the cooperation of these artists, the author is enabled to present a complete pictorial record of the Spanish missions of the old Southwest. ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO.CLEVE HALLENBECK. Size: 4to. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 141022
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