| Missions of Central California Contributor(s): Bellezza, Robert A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738596809 ISBN-13: 9780738596808 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation - Resorts & Spas - Architecture | Buildings - Landmarks & Monuments |
| Dewey: 979.402 |
| LCCN: 2012952042 |
| Series: Images of America |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or The Royal Road. The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de Alcala, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. Junipero Serra, the legendary mission presidente and founding father of nine missions, traveled along a worn path lined today by symbolic bell markers leading to many remarkable, modern cities. After 1772, settlements were spread to California s central coast region, filling with native neophytes who became the residents and builders of all mission settlements. The Spanish missions had brought dramatic changes to California s landscape and forged the underpinnings of its earliest history, founded serendipitously with the American Revolution and birth of the United States." |
Contributor Bio(s): Bellezza, Robert A.: - Images of America: Missions of Central California by Robert A. Bellezza features six historic missions and presents previously unreleased photographs from the author s vintage collection of film and glass negatives, prints, and view postcards, combined with images from the Library of Congress and Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection. |