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The Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California
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The network of missions founded under the Dominicans in the latter part of the eighteenth century in northern Baja California estab- lished there a new and distinct culture landscape. Although at the very doorway of Alta California, these missions have remained almost un- known. A geographic analysis of them has not heretofore been at- tempted, and history has so greatly neglected them that the very exist- ence of the last two missions has been overlooked or questioned. The present study, based upon field work from 1925 to 1929 and upon such written knowledge as is available, delineates this almost forgotten scene of activity. This title was originally published in 1935.
The network of missions founded under the Dominicans in the latter part of the eighteenth century in northern Baja California estab- lished there a new and distinct culture landscape. Although at the very doorway of Alta California, these missions have re
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS 1
- PAET ONE
- INTRODUCTION
- II. PRE-DOMINICAN KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIELD
- III. THE FRONTIER AS A FIELD FOR MISSIONS
- IV. THE POUNDING OF THE MISSIONS
- PART TWO
- VI. SANTO DOMINGO
- VII. SAN TELMO ASISTENCIA
- ■VIII. SAN VICENTE
- IX. SANTO TOMAS
- X. SAN MIGUEL
- XI. DESCANSO AND THE NORTHERN BORDER
- XIII. SANTA CATALINA
- XIV. SAN PEDRO MARTIR
- PART THREE
- XV. FIGURES OF ABORIGINAL POPULATION
- XVI. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE MISSIONS
- XVII. THE PASSING OF MISSION CULTURE
- XVIII. POST-MISSION LANDSCAPES
- APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- PLATES