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Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
For those interested in California history beginning with the days of Spanish & Mexican settlement and continuing through the 1890's, this covers a myriad of subjects, such as the mission days, the landscape of early California, mining operations, logging, early San Francisco, Southern California, etc... Other subjects include the story of the Utica mine; pioneer Spanish families; San Francisco in the early days; logging in the Redwood forests of...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Junipero Serra's birth, this landmark biography of the founder of the first Catholic missions in California presents an authoritative study of a man whose life continues to be celebrated and denounced.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Magical spaces rich in history, the missions of California, featured here in all-new photography, invite reverie and hint of romance. The twenty-one missions of California, from San Diego to San Francisco Solano, are historic treasures and sites of pilgrimage for visitors from the world over. Intrinsically beautiful structures typically built of adobe brick and wood, adorned with towers, domes, whitewashed stucco, often surrounded by lush gardens,...
Author
Series
Before gold volume 3
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the intrepid priest who established the eighteenth-century missions of the Catholic Church in California draws on extensive research and original discoveries while discussing Serra's passionate devotion to California's native populations.
Author
Series
Western histories volume 1
Publisher
Published for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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