Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers: Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767-1856

Described by borderlands scholar Cynthia Radding Murrietta as “a masterpiece of the historian’s craft,” this narrative history of the Spanish and Mexican periods on the Sonora-Arizona frontier begins with the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries and ends with the secularization of the missions in Sonora and the transfer of the northern frontier to the United States. Kessell exhibits his trademark passion for scholarly research combined with insightful analysis and an engaging writing style.
--Alfredo Gonzales.

Kessell, John L

Tucson : University of Arizona Press

1976

xv, 347 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

eng

book

H9791 K42f Sp Coll