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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN-100826351573
ISBN-139780826351579
eBay Product ID (ePID)112967570
Product Key Features
Book TitleHarvest of Reluctant Souls : Fray Alonso De Benavides's History of New Mexico 1630
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicChristian Ministry / Missions, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Christianity / Catholic, Social History, Mexico, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Religion, Social Science, History
AuthorBaker H. Morrow
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight4.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-047922
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal978.9/01
SynopsisThe 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., The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides. Benavides's riveting 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.