Research Catalog

Title

Early Jesuit missions in Tarahumara / by Peter Masten Dunne.

Author

Dunne, Peter Masten, 1889-1957.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California, 1948.

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Details

Description

276 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map; 23 cm

Summary

"This study ... of the Jesuit mission system in northern Mexico is the third made by the author for this series of volumes on the activities of the Jesuits in Spanish North America. It follows in logical sequence on the second monograph: Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico (1944)."--Author's pref.

Subject

• Jesuits > Missions > History. > Mexico > Tarahumara Mountains
• Catholic Church > Missions > History. > Mexico > Tarahumara Mountains
• Catholic Church
• Jesuits
• Jesuiten
• Tarahumara Indians > Missions
• Tarahumara Indians > History
• Missions
• Tarahumara Indians
• Mission
• Mexico > Tarahumara Mountains
• Tarahumara

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Follows in logical sequence ... [the author's] Pioneer Jesuits in northern Mexico."
• Fourth in a series of volumes on the activities of the Jesuits in Spanish North America.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.

Contents

The land and its people -- The frontier creeps north -- Fonte, first apostle of the Tarahumares -- Fonte is slain -- Rebuilding a broken frontier -- A new mission unit -- Four Caciques rebel -- Another teacher falls -- Appeasement, new revolt, massacre -- The pursuit of Chief Tepóraca -- Jurisdictional difficulties -- Recovery -- Tarahumara spreads its missions -- Two great apostles -- New missions in Alta Tarahumara -- Zapata visits Tarahumara -- Neumann begins a career -- A kaleidoscopic twelvemonth -- Storm, treason, and revolt -- The uprising of 1697 -- Precarious appeasement -- Tarahumara's northern home -- The last great apostle -- The last report.

LCCN

92217705

OCLC

• ocm25359142
• 25359142
• SCSB-2105997

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library