On the trail of a Spanish pioneer;
the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes,
by Elliott Goues ...

Description

Main Author: Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781.
Related Names: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899.
Language(s): English
Published: New York : F. P. Harper, 1900.
Subjects: Missions > Missions / California.
Missions > Missions / Arizona.
Missions > Missions / Mexico > Missions / Mexico / Sonora (State)
Southwest, New > Southwest, New / Description and travel.
Note: A Spanish version was published in 1854 in 2d ser., v. 1 (p. 225-374) of "Documentos para is historia de México". under th etitle "Diarioy derrotero que siguio el m. r. p. fr. Francisco Graces en su viaje hecho desde octubre de 1775 hasta 17 de setlembre de 1776". The present translation was made from a miscellaneous copy differing considerably from the printed text and now preserved in the library of the Bureau of American ethnology. cf. Introd.
Paged continousuly.
Physical Description: 2 v. fronts. 8 pl., 2 port., 2 maps. plan, 5 facsim. 24 cm.
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