Las Misiones antiguas
Subtitle: the Spanish missions of Baja California, 1683-1855
By: Edward W. Vernon
Publisher: Viejo Press; Distributed by the University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif; Albuquerque, New Mexico
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- History; Missions, Spanish -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula); Spanish mission buildings -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula); Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Church history
Other titles: Spanish missions of Baja California
Description: "Few Americans realize that the missions of Baja California predate the Alta California missions by over 70 years, and are the first links in a chain that spanned the Spanish Californias from Cabo San Lucas to San Francisco." "Las Misiones Antiguas is a photographic and written record describing the location, history, and present condition of all the sites of the little-known missions of Baja California.".

"Every peninsular mission and several visitas were visited by the author and his companions, and the positions of each site was recorded using a GPS instrument. In addition to photographing each site, oral history was taken from the area's residents. Sketches record the configuration of sites not previously mapped, and in the case of the largest Baja California mission, Comondu, the foundation was traced and old photographs utilized to computer-generate three-dimensional architectural drawings.".

"More than 300 illustrations, including historic photographs, maps, and the history and major events at the missions make this book the most complete contemporary source of information on these intriguing and rapidly disappearing remnants of Mexican and American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Maps on lining paper

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-299) and index