| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 457 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Before gold : California under Spain and Mexico ; v.8 |
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Before gold ; v. 8.
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue : más allá -- Introduction : the Prince of Lonely Wanderers -- 1. Epiphany : 1738-1763 -- 2. The children's padre : 1763-1767 -- 3. Ende der Christenheit : 1767-1768 -- 4. Are you a woman or a man? : 1769-1770 -- 5. El Camino del Diablo : 1770-1771 -- 6. Not impossible : 1771-1773 -- 7. A vast heathendom : 1774 -- 8. An Indian himself : 1774-1775 -- 9. We now are brothers : 1775-1776 -- 10. Promises delayed : 1776-1779 -- 11. Not peace, but a sword : 1779-1781 -- Epilogue : blood of the martyrs -- Appendix : Anza's requested supplies for the 1775-1776 expedition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Consulting archives on three continents, including previously untapped sources and Garcés's extensive diaries and letters, long obscured by unyielding language and handwriting, Beer crafts a nuanced and thoroughly engaging account of this incomparable explorer, groundbreaking missionary, and central actor in New Spain's final sustained effort to expand its dominion into the lands that would become the American Southwest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebooks Central, viewed on August 30, 2024) |
| Subject |
Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781.
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Missionaries -- Southwest, New -- Biography
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Missions, Spanish -- Southwest, New -- History
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HISTORY / United States / General.
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HISTORY / Military / General.
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Southwest, New -- History -- To 1848.
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Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration, Spanish
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780806195001 |
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0806195002 |
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