The biggest campmeeting in the Southwest, the Bloys Campmeeting near Fort Davis, Texas, is in the midst of an enormous range country away from all factories and farmers. Since about 1933 the United States Indian Service has not only allowed but rather encouraged the Indians to revert to their own religious ceremonies. They have always been religious. The Spanish colonists of the Southwest, as elsewhere, were zealously Catholic, and their descendants have generally remained Catholic. A history of southwestern society that left out the Bible would be as badly gapped as one leaving out the horse or the six-shooter.
Church histories are about as numerous as state histories.
Virtually all county histories take into account church development. The books listed below are strong on personal experiences. The Padre on Horseback , 1932. Life of the Jesuit missionary Kino. Brownlow was a very representative figure.