The California Missions Source Book: Key Information, Dramatic Images, and Fascinating Anecdotes Covering All Twenty-one Missions

This comprehensive reference book contains detailed fact sheets about each of the twenty-one California missions as well as an extensive Foreword and Afterword covering the early history of California from 1769 to 1850. The content includes all essential dates; the official name and special designation; the mission's patron saint; the names of the founding missionaries; the Indian tribes from whom the neophytes were recruited; the mission site(s) including the nearest Indian village; plat maps and historic drawings showing the layout of the mission campus; water sources; peak population; agricultural output and livestock data; descriptions, images and architectural drawings of the mission church; the mission bells; notable art and artifacts etc., as well as the most significant event and the three-to-four most interesting facts about each mission. Exhibits show the total number of baptisms, marriages and deaths, and the population of the missions, presidios and pueblos, by decade, begi..

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• ISBN13: 9780982504703
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