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Northern New Spain, New Mexico Historical Review Essays (Hardcover)`

John L Kessell

Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly…

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Northern New Spain (Softcover)

John L Kessell

Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly…

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Mission of Sorrows: Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691 1767

John L. Kessell

Drawing upon archival materials in Mexico, Spain, and the United States - including accounts by the missionaries themselves and the surviving pages of the Guevavi record books - Kessell brings…

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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers: Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767 1856

John L. Kessell

The Franciscan mission San Jose de Tumacacori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell’s windows on the Arizona-Sonora frontier in this colourful documentary history. His fascinating view…

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East Orange by Christmas (Hardcover)

John L Kessell

Both mature professionals, they fell in love with childlike glee. John and Dorothy had met briefly in New Jersey. A medical doctor from Australia, he was en route to the…

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East Orange by Christmas (Softcover)

John L Kessell

This tenderhearted story, based on the love letters the author’s father wrote to the woman who became his wife in 1933, including numerous excerpts, is told by their son for…

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Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

John L. Kessell

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits. This long-overdue…

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The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776

John L Kessell

In New MexicoNstill a borderland possession of Spain in 1776Nan unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering picture of the colony. A…

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Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

John L. Kessell

John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an…

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Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Fremont

John L. Kessell

Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) is remembered today as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His Plano Geographico of the…

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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

John L. Kessell

A distinguished historian paints an evenhanded picture of uneasy coexistence

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Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer

Herbert Eugene Bolton

This re-issued biography recounts [Kino’s] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates, maps, and bibliography enhance a text that should find…

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The Volumes of the Vargas Project (Boxed Set)

In this limited, numbered, and signed boxed set are first editions of every volume in the official correspondence of don Diego de Vargas: By Force of Arms, To the Royal…

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Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City

The origins and transformations of the very building blocks of Santa Fe, from the iconic Palace of the Governors to the city’s acequia irrigation system, are revealed in these pages.

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Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of Don Diego De Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

Diego De Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks,Meredith D. Dodge

Having retaken Santa Fe by force of arms late in 1693, Diego de Vargas faces unrelenting challenges, waging active warfare against defiant Pueblo Indian resisters while maintaining peace with Pueblo…

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That Disturbances Cease: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1697-1700

Diego De Vargas,John L. Kessell

Documents the legal manoeuvring at Santa Fe, Mexico City, and Madrid, as sitting governor, former governor, and groups of contending colonists struggle to make themselves heard and advance their interests.

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Settling of Accounts: The Journals of Don Diego De Vargas, New Mexico, 1700-1704

Diego De Vargas,Kessell J.L.

In this, the sixth and final volume of the journals of don Diego de Vargas, Kessell and his colleagues continue their exploration of politics and society in the colonial New…

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To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego De Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-94

Diego de Vargas,John L Kessell,Rick Hendricks,Meredith D Dodge

A documentary account of the resettlement of New Mexico composed of journals and official government records from the late 17th century.

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