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On the trail of a Spanish pioneer : the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776 : translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and edited with copious critical notes /
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New York :
Francis P. Harper,
1900.
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| Series: | American explorers series ;
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Table of Contents:
- v. I. Biography of Garces
- The four entradas of Garces, 1768-74. First entrada, to the Gila, 1768 ; Second entrada, to the Gila, 1770 ; Third entrada, to the Gila and Colorado, 1771 ; Fourth entrada, to the Gila, Colorado, and San Gabriel in California, 1774
- Officialities and other prelimiaries, to October 21, 1775
- From Tubac to Casas Grandes on Rio Gila, October 23-31, 1775
- Down Rio Gila to Yuma, November 1775
- Down Rio Colorado from Yuma to the Gulf and return, December, 1775
- Up Rio Colorado from Yuma to Mojave, January and February, 1776 ; From Mojave to San Gabriel, March-April 8, 1776
- From San Gabriel through the Tulares to Mojave, April 9-May, 1776.
- v. II. From Mojave to Moqui, June, 1776
- Among the Moquis, July 2-4, 1776
- From Moqui to Mojave, July, 1776
- From Mojave down Rio Colorado to Yuma, up Rio Gila, and over to Bac, July 25-September 17, 1776
- Reflections on the diary. Point 1. Number of nations, etc. ; Point 2. Amities and enmities ; Point 3. Nations most ready for catechism and vassalage, etc. ; Point 4. Presidios necessary ; Point 5. How to subdue the Apache ; Point 6. Communication with New Mexico and Monterey ; Point 7. On the reports of Silvestre Velez de Escalante, etc., ; Point 8. On the equipment of missions ; Postscript by the scholiast, Miguel Valero Olea
- Appendix. Eusebio Francisco Kino / by Elliott Couse.