Research Catalog

Title

Spanish colonial Tucson : a demographic history / Henry F. Dobyns. --

Author

Dobyns, Henry F.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1976.

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Description

x, 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"[Dobyns] has written a fascinating account of the ethnic development of early Tucson. Using a variety of methods and sources, he reveals how Spaniards, mestizos from New Spain, and Native Americans from many tribes laid the ethnic foundations for the modern city. The book also provides much insight into the general history of Spanish colonial society as it evolved in the Tucson area to 1821. . . . Dobyns, utilizing previously unpublished primary sources, allows the early inhabitants of the Tucson area to speak for themselves, and their comments add much to a very colorful and exciting but often grim story. . . . And his penetrating look at the ethnic development of early Tucson should attract attention from anyone interested in a better understanding of how the nation as a whole achieved its multi-cultural character." --The Journal of American History.

Subject

• Geschichte 1694-1797
• Spanish mission buildings > Arizona
• Tucson (Ariz.) > History
• Arizona > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 209-232.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. 1. Mission -- Founding a Jesuit mission near Tucson, 1694-1756 -- Continued Jesuit proselytizing, 1756-1767 -- Garcés' Franciscan mission branch, 1768-1779 -- Brick-and-mortar missionaries, 1779-1790 -- Franciscans at work, 1790-1821 -- Pt. 2. Presidio -- Founding the Royal Spanish Post of San Agustín del Tucson, 1766-1779 -- Fighting Apaches: offense and defense, 1778-1782 -- Harassing the Western Apaches, 1782-1792 -- Peace with the Western Apaches, 1793-1821 -- Peacetime Presidio, 1793-1821
• Religion at the Royal Fort of San Agustín del Tucson, 1779-1821 -- End of Spanish colonial rule at Tucson, 1821 -- Pt. 3. Population dynamics -- Northern Piman population trends at Tucson, 1690-1821 -- Population dynamics at the Tucson Military Post, 1776-1797 -- Pt. 4. Supplementary data.

ISBN

0816505462 : 0816504385

LCCN

^^^75010344^//r852

OCLC

• 2191790
• SCSB-11862463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library