Rudo ensayo
Subtitle: a description of Sonora and Arizona in 1764
By: Juan Nentvig ; translated, clarified, and annotated by Alberto Francisco Pradeau and Robert R. Rasmussen.
Contributors: Pradeau, Alberto Francisco, 1894-; Rasmussen, Robert R.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Jesuits -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Jesuits -- Arizona.; Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Indians of North America -- Arizona.; Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Arizona -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 137-144.
Translation of the copy of the author's ms. in the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City, History Section, v. 393 which has title: Descripción geográfica, natural y curiosa de la Provincia de Sonora por un amigo de el servicio de Dios y de el Rey Nuestro Señor; commonly known as Rudo ensayo.
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