The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico. In 1625, Father Benavides and his party traveled north from Mexico City to New Mexico, a strange land of frozen rivers, Indian citadels, and mines full of silver and garnets. Benavides and his Franciscan brothers built schools, erected churches, engineered peace treaties, and were said to perform miracles.
Benavides’s riveting exploration narrative provides portraits of the Pueblo Indians, the Apaches, and the Navajos at a time of fundamental change. It also gives us the first full picture of European colonial life in the southern Rockies, the southwestern deserts, and the Great Plains, along with an account of mission architecture and mission life and a unique evocation of faith in the wilderness.
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A Harvest of Reluctant Souls
Fray Alonso de Benavides's History of New Mexico, 1630
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Table of contents
- A Harvest of Reluctant Souls
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Letter from Fray Juan de Santander to the King of Spain
- Letter from Fray Alonso de Benavides to the King of Spain
- 1. The Nations That Live Along the Road to New Mexico
- 2. The Mansa Nation of the RĂo del Norte
- 3. The Beginning of the Apache Nation
- 4. The Province and Nation of the Piros, SenecĂș, Socorro, and Sevilleta
- 5. The Mines of Socorro
- 6. The Tiwa Nation
- 7. The Queres Nation
- 8. The Tompiro Nation
- 9. The Tano Nation1
- 10. The Pecos Nation
- 11. The Villa of Santa FĂ©
- 12. The Tewa Nation
- 13. The JĂ©mez Nation
- 14. The PicurĂs Nation
- 15. The Taos Nation
- 16. The Great Rock of Acoma
- 17. The Zuni Nation
- 18. The Moqui (Hopi) Nation
- 19. The Rites of These Heathens
- 20. How Well They Take to Christian Practices
- 21. What That Kingdom Owes to Your Majesty
- 22. The Fertility of the Land
- 23. Fish
- 24. Game
- 25. The Rigorous Climate
- 26. The Great Apache Nation
- 27. The Beginning of the Conversion of the Apaches
- 28. The Conversion of the Gila Apaches, and the Notable Hieroglyphic of an Apache Captain
- 29. The Conversion of the Apaches de NavajĂł
- 30. The Vaquero Apaches of the Buffalo Herd
- 31. The Miraculous Conversion of the Humana Nation
- 32. The Kingdom of Quivira and Aixaos
- 33. The Holy Tasks with Which the Friars Keep Themselves Busy
- 34. The South Coast
- 35. The Valley of Sonora (Señora)
- 36. AgastĂĄn
- 37. Sibola (CĂbola)
- 38. Tiguex (Tihues)
- 39. A City
- 40. Marvelous Great Rock
- 41. TuzayĂĄn
- 42. Cicuyo (Cicuye or Pecos)
- 43. Quivira
- Postscript
- Notes
- For Further Reading
- Index
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