Describes the life and works of the Franciscan priests who helped the Spanish colonize California by establishing missions for the native peoples and new settle

Indians of the California Mission Frontier talks about what life was like for the neophytes who joined the missions. A controversial subject for many historians

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's history In the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were

Lightfoot examines the interactions between Native American communities in California & the earliest colonial settlements, those of Russian pioneers & Francisca