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Mission to paradise: the story of Junipero Serra and the missions of California.

Title
Mission to paradise: the story of Junipero Serra and the missions of California.
Author
King, Kenneth Moffat.
Publication
London, Burns & Oates [1956]

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Description
x, 190 pages illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Serra, Junípero, Saint, 1713-1784
  • To 1846
  • Missions > California
  • Missions
  • Mission
  • California > History > To 1846
  • California
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography.
Contents
Balearic boyhood -- From the old world to the new -- Operation paradise -- The miracle of San Diego -- The royal chapel of Monterey -- The Indians of California -- Mission bells -- At the viceroy's palace -- The mission of St. Francis -- Anza's great trek -- Difficulties -- Massacre on the Colorado -- The long afternoon -- The last days -- The Serra legend -- The lengthened shadow -- Life at the missions -- Secularization -- And even now.
LCCN
57000933
OCLC
  • ocm02180889
  • 2180889
  • SCSB-597492
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library