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Franciscan frontiersmen : how three adventurers charted the West /

Pious and scholarly, the Franciscan friars Pedro Font, Juan Crespi and Francisco Garces may at first seem improbable heroes. Beginning in Spain, their adventures encompassed the remote Sierra Gorda highlands of Mexico, the deserts of the American Southwest and coastal California. Each man's jou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kittle, Robert A., 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Font, Pedro, > 1737-1781 > Travel > West (U.S.)
Crespí, Juan, > 1721-1782 > Travel > West (U.S.)
Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, > 1738-1781 > Travel > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
California > Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
Franciscans > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Franciscans > Spain > Biography.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Explorers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

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Call Number: F592 .K58 2017
 
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