The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776

by John L. Kessell

Book Overview

The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico-still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776-an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony. "The Missions of New Mexico, 1776," impeccably translated and edited by distinguished historians Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Ang lico Ch vez, is a single...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865348707
• ISBN13: 9780865348707
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.0"