Mission of Sorrows: Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691-1767
Tucson, AZ (1970): University of Arizona. First Edition. Quarto. Item #027191
224p. index; foreword by Ernest J. Burrus. Jesuit missions to Pimas along Arizona's Santa Cruz River. An in-depth study of a single missionary center, Kessell describes in detail the daily round of the Padres in their activities as missionaries, educators, governors, and intercessors among the often indifferent and occasionally hostile Pimas. Bound in maroon pictorial gilt cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, a small circular red mark to upper corner of front endpaper, near fine in very good pictorial dust jacket with some off-setting to front panel.
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