The Spanish Pioneers and the California missions
Charles F. Lummis
- Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co. 1929
- 343 p
The pioneer nation -- The broad story. A muddled geography -- Specimen pioneers. Columbus the finder -- The greatest conquest. Making geography -- The chapter of conquest -- A girdle around the world -- Spain in the United States -- Two continents mastered -- The first American traveller -- The greatest American traveller -- The War of the Rock -- The storming of the sky-city -- The soldier poet -- The pioneer missionaries -- The church-builders in New Mexico -- Alvarado's leap -- The American golden fleece -- The swineherd of Truxillo -- The man who would not give up -- Gaining ground -- Peru as it was -- The conquest of Peru -- The golden ransom -- Atahualpa's treachery and death -- Founding a nation--the siege of Cuzco -- The work of traitors.
Spanish missions of California Discovery and exploration Spanish--America History--New Mexico