This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to Ca

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

Pious and scholarly, the Franciscan friars Pedro Font, Juan Crespí, and Francisco Garcés may at first seem improbable heroes. Beginning in Spain, their advent

Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.