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A Harvest of Reluctant Souls - Fray Alonso de Benavides's History of New Mexico, 1630 (Paperback)
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A Harvest of Reluctant Souls - Fray Alonso de Benavides's History of New Mexico, 1630 (Paperback)
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The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the
early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published
in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso
de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the
mission churches of New Mexico. In 1625, Father Benavides and his
party traveled north from Mexico City to New Mexico, a strange land
of frozen rivers, Indian citadels, and mines full of silver and
garnets. Benavides and his Franciscan brothers built schools,
erected churches, engineered peace treaties, and were said to
perform miracles. Benavides's riveting exploration narrative
provides portraits of the Pueblo Indians, the Apaches, and the
Navajos at a time of fundamental change. It also gives us the first
full picture of European colonial life in the southern Rockies, the
southwestern deserts, and the Great Plains, along with an account
of mission architecture and mission life and a unique evocation of
faith in the wilderness.
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