On the trail of a Spanish pioneer
Subtitle: the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776.
By: Translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and edited, with copious critical notes by Elliott Coues ...
Contributors: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899.
Series: American explorers series -- III.; Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 206, no. 2123.
Publisher: F.P. Harper
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Missions -- Sonora.; Missions -- Arizona.; Missions -- California.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
Notes: Paged continuously; v. 1: xxx, 312 p.; v. 2: vii, 313-608 p.

Limited ed. of 950 copies. "No. 221."

A Spanish version was published in 1854 in 2d ser., v. 1 (p. 225-374) of "Documentos para la historia de México," under the title "Diario y derrotero que siguio el M.R.P. Fr. Francisco Garces en su viaje hecho desde octubre de 1775 hasta 17 de setiembre de 1776". The present translation was made from a ms. copy differing considerably from the printed text, and now preserved in the library of the Bureau of American ethonology. cf. Introd.

References: Howes, U.S.IANA, no. C.801.

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana, Reel 206, no. 2123)