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 manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes . ood description of the church as it-tands may be read in the pamphlet above cited, pp. 16-20, and] here give a very recent photograph. 10 This date is notable for one of the miracles which oftenhappened during the journey—at least in Fonts diary says it is a wonderful thing that they were never jum
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 manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes . ood description of the church as it-tands may be read in the pamphlet above cited, pp. 16-20, and] here give a very recent photograph. 10 This date is notable for one of the miracles which oftenhappened during the journey—at least in Fonts diary says it is a wonderful thing that they were never jumped byApaches, nor did they ever see one; which should be attributedto the patronage of Santisima Virgen de Guadalupe, for, if theApaches had jumped them, no doubt there would have beentrouble—a statement of fact, whatever we may think of suchsimple logic. 11 From the Piman styuk-son, dark or brown spring. Itssettlement by Spaniards has been reputed to date from 1560,but there is little doubt that it became a Spanish settlementnot earlier than 1776. Before that time it was a rancheria,probably of mixed Pima, Papago, and Sobaipuri, and from asearly as 1763 was regularly visited, as San Jose de Tucson, bythe missionary of San Xavier del Bac. In 1776 the presidio of J - * 1 • i. *—
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