Library
This Mission Library or bibliography has as its intent the collection of some of the many scholarly and secondary resources presently available for study and research. We will continue to update this listing by theme as resources are suggested or come available, and will endeavor to add those sources that visitors bring to our attention.
Mission Indian Lifeways
Archibald, Robert R. “Indian Labor at the California Missions: Slavery or Salvation.” Journal of San Diego History 24.2 (1978): 172-82.
Asisara, Lorenzo. “The Assassination of Padre Andres Quintana by the Indians of Mission Santa Cruz in 1812: The Narrative of Lorenzo Asisara.” Translated and introduced by Edward D. Castillo. California History 68 (1989): 116-125.
Bean, Lowell John and Sylvia Brakke Vane. Ethnology of the Alta California Indians II: Postcontact, Vol. 4, Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks. ed. David Hurst Thomas. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1991.
Bauer, William . “First People: Toypurinia,” News From Native California, 19.3 (Spring 2006): 34-36.
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. “Francisco Palóu and the Construction of ‘California.’” In The Mission and the Community. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, ed. Dan Krieger. 10-13. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association. (2004): 10-13.
Broadbent, Sylvia. “Conflict at Monterey: Indian Horse Raiding, 1820-1850.” Journal of California Anthropology 1.1 (1974): 86-101.
Brown, Alan K. The Aboriginal Population of the Santa Barbara Channel. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, Number 69. University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, 1967.
Brown, Alan K. “Indians of San Mateo County.” La Peninsula: Journal of the San Mateo County Historical Association 17 (1973)
Brown, Alan K. “From the Pen of Pedro Font.” In Architecture, Physical Environment, and Society in Alta California. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. 3-12. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2005. 3-12.
Cook, Sherburne F. Expeditions to the Interior of California: Central Valley, 1820-1840. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
Cook, Sherburne F. The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indians and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Coombs, Gary and Fred Plog. “Chumash Baptism: An Ecological Perspective.” In ‘Antap: California Indian Political And Economic Organization. Eds Lowell J. Bean and Thomas King, 137-153. Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1974.
DeLay, Brian . “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” The American Historical Review 112, No. 1 (February 2007): 35-68.
Duggan, Marie. “Franciscan Income and Expenditures at Missions San Jose and Santa Clara.” (The Power of Generosity and the Danger of Broken Promises: Interdependence among Spanish and Indians in Early California.) In The Mission and the Community. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, ed. Dan Krieger. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2004. 29-49.
Duggan, Marie. “How the Budget of the Missions Contributed to the Relationships with Indian Communities. “ In Architecture, Physical Environment, and Society in Alta California. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2005. 65-76.
Duggan, Marie. “Laws of the Market vs. Laws of God: Scholastic Doctrine and the Early California Economy.” History of Political Economy Volume 37, Number 2 (Summer 2005): pp. 343-370. [A pdf of this paper is available from Duke University Press, http://hope.dukejournals.org]
Duggan, Marie. “Building an Alliance: Fr. Lasuén and the Kumeyaay in the 1770s and 1780s.” In San Diego, Alta California, and the Borderlands: Proceedings of the 23d Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2006. 174-178
Ettinger, Catherine R. “Hybrid Spaces: Indigenous Contributions to Mission Architecture.” In Architecture, Physical Environment, and Society in Alta California. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2005. 77-89.
Foss, Kristina Wilkinson. “Cieneguitas: Stolen Heritage of the Chumash Indians.” In Archaeological, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Alta California. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, ed. Rose Marie Beebe. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2003. 36-44.
Garr, Daniel J. “Planning, Politics, and Plunder: The Missions and Indian Pueblos of Hispanic California.” Southern California Quarterly 54.4 (1972): 291-312
Geiger, Maynard and Clement W. Meighan. As the Padres Saw Them: California Indian Life and Customs as Reported by the Franciscan Missionaries, 1813-1815. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, 1976
Goerke, Betty. Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2007
González, Michael J. “‘The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country’ The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 147-172.
Gray, Thorne B. The Stanislaus Indian Wars. The Last of the California Northern Yokuts. Modesto: The McHenry Museum Press, 1993.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “An Examination of the Thesis of S.F. Cook on the Forced Conversion of the Indians in the California Missions.” Southern California Quarterly 61.1 (1979): 1-77.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “The Indian Policy under Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, California’s Second Father President.” California Historical Society Quarterly 45.3 (1966): 195-224.
Haas, Lisbeth. Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Haas, Lisbeth. “Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom in Mexican California.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 11-22.
Hackel, Steven W. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Hackel, Steven W. “Land, Labor, and Production: The Colonial Economy of Spanish and Mexican California.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 111-46.
Holterman, Jack. “The Revolt of Estanislao.” Indian Historian 3.1 (1970): 43-54.
Honig, Sasha. “Yokuts, Spaniards and Californios in the Southern San Joaquin Valley.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 50-62
Hurtado, Albert L. “California Indian Demography, Sherburne F. Cook, and the Revision of American History,” Pacific Historical Review 58 (1989): 343.
Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988
Hurtado, Albert L. “Sexuality in California’s Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Sad Realities,” California History 71 (1991): 370-385.
Hutchinson, C. Alan. “The Mexican Government and the Mission Indians of Upper California, 1821-1835.” The Americas 21.4 (1964-65): 335-62
Ivey, James E. “Secularization in California and Texas.” Boletìn, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 23-36
Jackson, Robert H. and Edward Castillo. Franciscans and Spanish Colonization: the Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Jackson, Robert H. “Gentile Recruitment and Population Movements in the San Francisco Bay Area Missions.”Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 6.2 (1984): 225-39.
Johnson, John R. An Ethnohistoric Study of the Island Chumash. Unpublished M.A. thesis in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Johnson, John R. Chumash Social Organization: An Ethnohistoric Perspective. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988.
Johnson, John R. “The Chumash and the Missions.” In Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West , vol. 1 of Columbian Consequences, edited by David Hurst Thomas. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. 365-75.
Johnson, John R. The Chumash Indians After Secularization. Bakerfield: California Mission Studies Association. 1995.
Johnson, John R. “The Indians of Mission San Fernando.” Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 79.3 (1997): 249-290.
Johnson, John R. Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash People, v. 1. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1999. 133-146
Johnson, John R. “The Various Chinigchinich Manuscripts of Father Gerónimo Boscana.” In San Diego, Alta California, and the Borderlands: Proceedings of the 23d Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association. 2006. 1-19.
Larson, Daniel O., John R. Johnson, and Joel C. Michaelsen. “Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies.” American Anthropologist 96.2 (1994): 263-99.
Lightfoot, Kent G. Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Macias, John. “From Colonists to Californios: The Social World of Mission San Gabriel, 1771-1834.” In San Diego, Alta California, and the Borderlands: Proceedings of the 23d Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association. 2006. 52-63.
Mason, William M. “Indian-Mexican Cultural Exchange in the Los Angeles Area, 1781-1834.” Aztlan 15.1 (1984): 123-44.
Magnaghi, Emily B. and Russell M. Magnaghi. “The Agriculltural Development of Mission San Fernando, Rey de España.” In Architecture, Physical Environment, and Society in Alta California. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association. 2005. 135-152.
McLendon, Sally, and John R. Johnson. Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains, 2 volumes. Santa Barbara and New York: Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, and Hunter College, City University of New York. Report submitted to the Archeology and Ethnography Program, National Park Service, Washington, DC, 1999.
Meighan, Clement W. “Indians and the California Missions.” Southern California Quarterly 69.3 (Fall 1987): 183-201.
Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1810. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1995.
Milliken, Randall. Ethnohistory of the Rumsen. Papers in Northern California Anthropology, Number 2. Berkeley: Northern California Anthropological Group. Reprint available through Coyote Press, 1987.
Milliken, Randall. “History of Indian Assimilation into Mission Santa Clara.” In Telling the Santa Clara Story: Sesquicentennial Voices, Russell Skowronek, ed. pp. 45-63. Santa Clara: University of Santa Clara Press, 2002. 45-63.
Milliken, Randall. “The Spanish Contact and Mission Period Indians of the Santa Cruz-Monterey Bay Region”. In Gathering of Voices: The Native People of the Central California Coast. Santa Cruz County History Journal, Issue Number 5. Linda Yamane, ed. Santa Cruz: Museum of Art and History, 2002.
Mora-Torres, Gregorio, trans. and ed. Californio Voices : The Oral Memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2005.
Phillips, George Harwood. Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Phillips, George Harwood. “Indians and the Breakdown of the Spanish Mission System in California. In New Spain’s Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821, ed. David J. Weber. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. 257-270.
Phillips, George Harwood. Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1796-1849. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Phillips, George Harwood. Bringing Them Under Subjection: California’s Tejon Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Rivera, Jose Ignacio. “Monjerios: Changing the Culture by Changing the Women.” In The Mission and the Community. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, ed. Dan Krieger. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association. 2004. 56-60.
Schafer, Robert G. Coroni and Nu: Native Americans of San Juan Capistrano Mission in the Colonial Period, 1776-1848. Archive Press; San Juan Capistrano, 2004.
Shoup, Lawrence and Randall Milliken. Inigo of Rancho Posolmi: The Life and Times of a Mission Indian. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1999.
Sandos, James A. “Between Crucifix and Lance Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press 1998. 196-229.
Sandos, James A. “Christianization among the Chumash: An Ethnohistoric Perspective.” American Indian Quarterly 15.1 (1991): 65-89.
Sandos, James A. “Converting California Indians and Franciscans in the Missions, 1769-1836. Keynote Address, California Mission Studies Association Annual Meeting, 14 February 2003, Santa Cruz, California.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 5-10.
Sandos, James A. Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Sandos, James A. “Levantamiento! The 1824 Chumash Reconsidered.” Southern California Quarterly 67.2 (1985): 109-33.
Santiago, Mark. Massacre at the Yuma Crossing: Spanish Relations With the Quechans, 1779-1782. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
Shipek, Florence C. “California Indian Reaction to the Franciscans.” The Americas 41.4 (1984-85): 480-93.
Silliman, Stephen W. Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson: the University of Arizona Press, 2004.
Silliman, Stephen W. “Missions Aborted: California Indian Life on Nineteenth-Century Ranchos, 1834-1848.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 3-22
Sizelove, Linda. “Indian Adaptation to the Spanish Missions.” Pacific Historian 22.4 (1978): 393-402.
Tac, Pablo. Indian Life and Customs at Mission San Luis Rey. Mina and Gordon Hewes, trans and eds. San Luis Rey: Old Mission Press, 1958
Voss, Barbara L. “From Casta to Californio: Social Identity and the Archaeology of Culture Contact.” American Anthropologist 107, no.3 (2005): 461-474.
Weber, David. “Blood of Martyrs, Blood of Indians: Toward a More Balanced View of Spanish Missions in Seventeenth Century North America.” In Columbian Consequences, ed. David Hurst Thomas, Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. 429-448.
Williams, Jack S. “Indians in the Defense of Spanish and Mexican Alta California”. In Architecture, Physical Environment, and Society in Alta California. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association. 2005. 153-193.
Yee, Mary J. Illustrations by Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, and contributions by Marianne Mithun, Ph. D. and John R. Johnson, Ph. D., The Sugar Bear Story: a Barbareño Chumash Tale. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, published in co-operation with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. 2005.
Spanish Missions
Allen, Rebecca. “Native Americans at Mission Santa Cruz, 1791-1834: Interpreting the Archaeological Record.” In Perspectives in California Archaeology, Vol. V. Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles: University of California, 1998.
Archibald, Robert R.”Indian Labor at the California Missions: Slavery or Salvation.” Journal of San Diego History 24.2 172-82 1978.
Bancroft, Hubert H. California Pastoral, 1769-1848. San Francisco: History Co., 1888.
Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Haase. Historical Atlas of California. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846) Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001.
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. “Constructing California: Francisco Palóu’s Life of Junípero Serra.” In They Came to El Llano Estacado: An Anthology of Essays, Proceedings of The Franciscan Presence in the Borderlands of North America, International Symposium, ed. Félix D. Almaráz. Amarillo: Bishop De Falso Retreat and Conference Center (2006): 21-36.
Bowman, J.N. “The Birthdays of the California Missions.” The Americas 20.3 289-308 1963-64.
Bowman, J.N. “The Names of the California Missions.” The Americas 21.4 363-74 1964-65.
Bretnor, Reginald. “… Bring Cats! A Feline History of the West.” The American West. November-December 1978. Vol. XV, #6, 32-35, 60.
Broadbent, Sylvia. “Conflict at Monterey: Indian Horse Raiding, 1820-1850.” Journal of California Anthropology 1.1 (1974): 86-101.
Brown,Alan K. “Three Letters from the Pen of Fray Pedro Font.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 23.1 (2006): 85-118
Carreño, Alberto María. “The Missionary Influence of the College of Zacatecas.” The Americas 7.3 (1950-51): 297-320
Castillo, Edward D. “The Assassination of Padre Andrés Quintana by the Indians of Mission Santa Cruz in 1812: The Narrative of Lorenzo Asisara.” California History 68.3 (1989-90): 116-25.
Castillo, Edward D. “Gender Status Decline, Resistance, and Accomodation among Female Neophytes in the Missions or Caloifornia: A San Gabriel Case Study.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 18.1 (1994): 67-93.
Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indians and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Cook, Sherburne F. Expeditions to the Interior of California: Central Valley, 1820-1840. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
Engelhardt, Zephyrin, Fr. The Missions and Missionaries of California. 4 vols. San Francisco: James H. Barry Co., 1908-15.
Foley, C. Patrick. “Narratives of the Franciscan Legacy from Texas to California–Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture.” In They Came to El Llano Estacado: An Anthology of Essays, Proceedings of The Franciscan Presence in the Borderlands of North America, International Symposium, ed. Félix D. Almaráz. Amarillo: Bishop De Falso Retreat and Conference Center (2006). 63-71.
Garr, Daniel J. “Planning, Politics, and Plunder: The Missions and Indian Pueblos of Hispanic California.” Southern California Quarterly 54.4 (1972): 291-312.
Geiger, Maynard, O.F.M. “The Internal Organization and Activities of San Fernando College, Mexico City (1734-1858).” The Americas 6.1 (1949-50): 3-31.
Geiger, Maynard, O.F.M. “Biographical Data on the California Missionaries (1769-1848).” California Historical Quarterly 44.1 (1965): 291-310.
Geiger, Maynard, O.F.M. Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848: A Biographical Dictionary. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1969.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “The California Missions Were Far from Faultless.” Southern California Quarterly 76.3 (1994): 255-304.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “Cultural Perspectives on California Mission Life.” Southern California Quarterly 65.1 (1983): 1-65.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “An Examination of the Thesis of S.F. Cook on the Forced Conversion of the Indians in the California Missions.” Southern California Quarterly 61.1 (1979): 1-77.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “The Indian Policy under Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, California’s Second Father President.” California Historical Society Quarterly 45.3 (1966): 195-224.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M. “An Inquiry into the Role of the Discipline in California Mission Life.” Southern California Quarterly 71.1 (1989): 1-68.
Hackel, Steven W., José Refugio de la Torre Curiel, Janet Fireman, Steven M. Karr, and Robert M. Senkewicz, “Symposium: Children of Coyote, Missioaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22.2 (2005): 53-75.
Hageman, Fred C. and Russell C. Ewing. An Archaological and Restoration Study of Mission La Purisima Concepcion. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 1980.
Hurtado, Albert L. “California Indian Demography, Sherburne F. Cook, and the Revision of American History,” Pacific Historical Review 58 (1989): 343.
Hurtado, Albert L. “Sexuality in California’s Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Sad Realities,” California History 71 (1991): 370-385.
Jackson, Robert H.”Gentile Recruitment and Population Movements in the San Francisco Bay Area Missions.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 6.2 (1984): 225-39.
Jackson, Robert H. and Edward Castillo. Franciscans and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Johnson, John R. “The Chumash and the Missions.” In Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West , vol. 1 of Columbian Consequences, edited by David Hurst Thomas, 365-75. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Kelsey, Harry. San Juan Capistrano Mission Chapels and Cemetery. Northridge: Padre Press. 1993.
Krieger, Daniel. “San Miguel Arcángel. Pasado, Presente y Futuro.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 103-109
Krieger, Daniel. “Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.2 (2004): 73-79.
Larson, Daniel O., John R. Johnson, and Joel C. Michaelsen. “Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies.” American Anthropologist 96.2 (1994): 263-99.
Lightfoot, Kent. Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.
Lightfoot, Kent G., Malcolm Margolin, Keith Douglass Warner, John R. Johnson, and Julia Costello. “Symposium: Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22.1 (2005): 62-86
Meighan, Clement W. “Indians and the California Missions.” Southern California Quarterly 69.3 (Fall 1987): 183-201.
Sandos, James. “Levantamiento! The 1824 Chumash Reconsidered.” Southern California Quarterly 67.2 (1985): 109-33.
Sandos, James. “Between Crucifix and Lance Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush , edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. pp. 196-229. Berkeley: University of California Press 1998.
Sandos, James. “Christianization among the Chumash: An Ethnohistoric Perspective. American Indian Quarterly 15.1 (1991): 65-89.
Sandos, James A., Edward Castillo, Joseph P. Chinnici, O.F.M., Lisbeth Haas, and William John Summers. “Symposium: Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.2 (2004): 49-72
Shipek, Florence C. “California Indian Reaction to the Franciscans.” The Americas 41.4 (1984-85): 480-93.
Sizelove, Linda. “Indian Adaptation to the Spanish Missions.” Pacific Historian 22.4 (1978): 393-402.
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. “The Pious Fund of the Californias.” Hispanic American Historical Review 43.1 (1963): 78-94.
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. “Structure of Daily Life at the California Missions.” Pacific Historian 15.1 (1971)
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. The California Missions as Others Saw Them: 1786-1842. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1972
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. “Toiletry at the California Missions.” Southern California Quarterly 81:3 (1999): 295-304
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. Myths, Mythologists and the California Missions. In They Came to El Llano Estacado: An Anthology of Essays, Proceedings of The Franciscan Presence in the Borderlands of North America, International Symposium, ed. Félix D. Almaráz. Amarillo: Bishop De Falso Retreat and Conference Center (2006): 5-19.
Mission Arts and Architecture
Baer, Kurt. Painting and Sculpture at Mission Santa Barbara. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955
Baer, Kurt. The Treasures of Mission Santa Inés. Fresno: Academy of California Church History, 1956.
Baer, Kurt. Architecture of the California Missions. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958
Cullimore, Clarence. Santa Barbara Adobes. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Book Publishing Company, 1948.
Da Silva, Owen. Mission Music of California. Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1954.
Ettinger, Catherine R. “Spaces of Change: Architecture and the Creation of a New Society in the California Missions. Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 23-44.
Ettinger, Catherine R. “Hybrid Spaces: Indigenous Contributions to Mission Architecture.” In Architecture, Physical Environment, and Society in Alta California. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Bakersfield: California Mission Studies Association, 2005. 77-89.
Ford, Henry Chapman. An Artist Records the California Missions. Ed. and Intro. by Norman Neuerburg. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1989.
Hannaford, Donald R. and Revel Edwards. Spanish Colonial or Adobe Architecture of California, 1800-1850. Stamford: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1990.
Harding, George L. Don Agustín V. Zamorano: Statesman, Soldier, Craftsman, and California’s 1st Printer. 2nd ed. Norman: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2003.
Kenyon, Carol. “Conservation of Mission Art.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 37-49
de Moraes Rodriguez, Debora and Sherry N. De Freece. “Preserving the Great Stone Church: A Project to Conserve the Original Stone Flooring of the Sanctuary.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22:1 (2005): 25-32
Lamb, Blaine P. “Marketing the Mission Revival: Commercial Art and the Image of Hispanic California.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22.2 (2005): 94-112.
Mendoza, Rubén G. “Sacrament of the Sun: Eschatological Architecture and Solar Geometry in a California Mission.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22.1 (2005): 87-110
Neuerburg, Norman. 18th Century Santa Barbara Presidio Chapel: Secrets Uncovered By 20th Century Research. Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1985
Neuerburg, Norman. Decoration of the California Mission. Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1987.
Neuerburg, Norman. The Architecture of Mission La Purísima Concepcion . Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1987.
Neuerburg, Norman. Agustin V. Zamorano, Architect. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club 1988.
Neuerburg, Norman. Saints of the California Missions. Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1989.
Neuerburg, Norman. Why Are Those Mirrors on the Altar? Ventura: Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 38.2 (1993).
Neuerburg, Norman. The Indian Via Crucis from Mission San Fernando: An Historical Exposition. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, 1998.
Newcomb, Rexford. The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California. New York: Dover Publications, 1973
Roselund, Nels. “Three Eras of Construction at the San Juan Capistrano Mission Church: 1800, 1900, and 2000.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22:1 (2005): 9-24
Russell, Craig H. “Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Origins of California’s First Composer and the Early Mission Style (Part I)” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 68-102
Russell, Craig H. “Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Origins of California’s First Composer and the Early Mission Style (Part I)” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.2 (2004): 4-35
Shafer, Robert G and Christopher Loomis. “Preserving the Jewel of the Missions: San Juan Capistrano’s Great Stone Church, 1806-2004.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22:1 (2005): 3-8.
Schuetz-Miller, Mardith K. Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850. Tucson: Southwestern Mission Research Center, 1995
Pueblos & Presidios
Crandell, John. “Rio Porciuncula: A New Perspective on the Former Environs of Los Angeles.”Southern California Quarterly . 81:3 (1999): 305-314.
Duggan, Marie Christine. The Chumash and the Presidio of Santa Barbara: Evolution of a Relationship, 1782-1823. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 2004.
Guerrero, Vladimir. The Anza Trail and the Settling of California. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2006.
Hutchinson, C. Alan. Frontier Settlement in Mexican California: The Híjar-Padrés Colony and its Origins, 1769-1835. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969.
Lambert, Diane and Naomi Reinhart, Ludivina Russell, and Gregory Von Herzen, Translators and editors. A Year in the Life of a Spanish Colonial Pueblo: San José de Guadalupe in 1809. The Research Manuscript Series on the Cultural and Natural History of Santa Clara, 1998.
Lothrop, Gloria R. “Life in Presidial California.” Magazine of History. 14.4 (2000): 44-53.
Mason, William M. “Indian-Mexican Cultural Exchange in the Los Angeles Area, 1781-1834.” Aztlan 15.1 (1984): 123-44.
Mason, William M. The Census of 1790: A Demographic History of Colonial California. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1998.
Nunis, Jr., Doyce B., ed. Hispanic California Revisited: Essays by Francis F. Guest, O.F.M. Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 1996
Weber, David J. “Santa Bárbara’s Presidio in Imperial Perspective: Citadel and Theater Set.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 23:1 (2006): 4-21
Ranchos
Silliman, Stephen W. “Missions Aborted: California Indian Life on Nineteenth-Century Ranchos, 1834-1848.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 3-22
Silliman, Stephen W. Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson: the University of Arizona Press, 2004.
Robinson, William W. Land In California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948.
Silliman, Stephen W. “Missions Aborted: California Indian Life on Nineteenth-Century Ranchos, 1834-1848.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 3-22
Silliman, Stephen W. Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson: the University of Arizona Press, 2004.
Early California
Atherton, Faxon Dean. The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 18836-1839. ed. Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. San Francisco and Los Angeles: California Historical Society, 1964.
Beechey, Frederick William. An Account of a Visit to California 1826-’27 Reprinted from A narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait in His Majesty’s ship Blossom under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey. San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1941.
Bryant, Edwin. What I Saw in California. Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc., 1967.
Chamisso, Aldelbert von. A Voyage Around the World with the Romanzov Exploring Expedition in the Years 1815-1818 in the Brig Rurik, Captain Otto Von Kotzebue. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1986.
Dakin, Susanna Bryant. The Lives of William Hartnell. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949.
Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1969.
Davis, William Heath. Sixty Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California. San Francisco: A.J. Leary, 1889.
Dillon, Richard. Fool’s Gold: The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California. New York: Coward-Mc Cann, 1967
Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste. A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, & Around the World in the Years 1826-1829. transl. and ed. August Frugé and Neal Harlow. San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1997.
Engstrand, Iris H.W. “The Transit of Venus in 1769: Launching Pad for European Exploration in the Pacific during the Late Eighteenth Century.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.2 (2004): 36-48
Farris, Glenn J., Maurice Hodgson and Andrew David, eds. with annotations by Glenn J. Farris. “The California Journal of Lt. Edward Belcher aboard the H.M.S. Blossom in 1826 and 1827.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 45-67.
Forbes, Alexander. California A History of Upper and Lower California. Introduction by Herbert Ingram Priestley. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1972.
Gurcke, Starr Pait, transl., and Glenn J. Farris, ed. The Diary and Copybook of William E.P. Hartnell. Santa Clara and Spokane: The California Mission Studies Association and the Arthur H. Clark Company. 2004.
Hurtado, Albert L. John Sutter: Life on the North American Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006
Janssens, Victor Eugene August. The Life and Adventures in California of Don Agustin Janssens 1834-1856. eds William H. Ellison and Francis Price. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1953.
Langsdorff, Georg von. Langsdorff’s Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage. San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1927.
La Pérouse, Jean François de. Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1989.
Lightfoot, Kent. The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California Volume One. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Lightfoot, Kent, Thomas Wake and Ann Schif. “Native Responses to the Russian Mercantile Colony of Fort Ross, Northern California.” Journal of Field Archaeology, 20 (1993): 159-175.
Malaspina, Alejando. Malaspina in California. ed. Donald C. Cutter. San Francisco: John Howell, 1960.
Miller, Robert Ryal. Captain Richardson: Mariner, Ranchero, and Founder of San Francisco. Berkeley: La Loma Press, 1995.
Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich. The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806. San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1926.
Richardson, William. “California and the Russian American Company” In Mexico Through Russian Eyes, 1806-1940. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.
Robinson, Alfred. Life in California, a Historical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Traditions of the Indians of Alta-California. Oakland: Biobooks, 1947.
Rolle, Andrew F. An American in California: The Biography of William Heath Davis. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1956.
Rolle, Andrew F. The Letters of Alfred Robinson to the De la Guerra family of Santa Barbara, 1834-1873. translation and annotation by Maynard Geiger,O.F.M. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1972.
Vancouver, George. Vancouver in California: 1792-1794. ed. Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953.
Early California Governance
Beilharz, Edwin A. Felipe de Neve, First Governor of California. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1971.
Castillo, Edward D. “An Indian Account of the Decline and Collapse of Mexico’s Hegenomy over the Missionized Indians of California.” American Indian Quarterly 13.4 (1989): 391-408.
Escobar, Agustín. “The Campaign of ‘46 against the Americans in California.” in Three Memoirs of Mexican California. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1988. 107-125.
Geary, Gerald J. The Secularization of the California Missions, 1810-1846. Catholic University of America Studies in American Church History, vol. 17. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1934.
González, Michael J. “‘The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country’ The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush , edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. pp. 147-72. Berkeley: University of California Press 1998
Hale, Charles A. Mexican Liberalism in the Age of Mora, 1821-1853. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
Hansen, Woodrow James. The Search for Authority in California. Oakland: Biobooks, 1960.
Hutchinson, C. Alan. “The Mexican Government and the Mission Indians of Upper California, 1821-1835.” The Americas 21.4 (1964-65): 335-62.
Hutchinson, C. Alan. Frontier Settlement in Mexican California: The Híjar-Padrés Colony and Its Origins, 1769-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
Ivey, James E. “Secularization in California and Texas.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 23-36.
Langum, David J. “Sin, Sex, and Separation in Mexican California: Her Domestic Relations Law.” The Californians 5.3 1987): 44-50.
Langum, David J. Law and Community on the Mexican Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987
Miller, Robert Ryal. Juan Alvarado, Governor of California, 1836-1842. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1998.
Hansen, Woodrow James. The Search for Authority in California. Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1960.
Neri, Michael C. “Narciso Durán and the Secularization of the California Missions.” The Americas 33.3 (1976-77): 411-29.
Servin, Manuel P. “The Secularization of the California Missions: A Reappraisal.” Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 47.2 (1965): 133-49.
Society and Culture
Bandini, José. A Description of California in 1828. transl. Doris Marion Wright. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1951.
Castañeda, Antonia I. “Hispanas and Hispanos in a Mestizo Society.” Magazine of History 14.4 (2000): 29-33.
Duggan, Marie. “Laws of the Market vs. Laws of God: Scholastic Doctrine and the Early California Economy.” History of Political Economy Volume 37, Number 2 (Summer 2005): pp. 343-370. [A pdf of this paper is available from Duke University Press, http://hope.dukejournals.org]
Emparan, Madie Brown. The Vallejos of California. San Francisco: Gleeson Library Associates, 1968.
Engstrand, Iris H. W. “How Cruel Were the Spaniards?” Magazine of History 14.4 (2000): 12-15.
Francis, Jessie Davies. An Economic and Social History of Mexican California, 1822-1846. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
Haas, Lisbeth. Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Hackel, Steven W. “Land, Labor, and Production: The Colonial Economy of Spanish and Mexican California.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. pp. 111-46. Berkeley: University of California Press 1998.
Hafen, Le Roy and Ann W. Hafen. Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles. Introduction by David Weber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Hijar, Carlos J. “California in 1834” in Three Memoirs of Mexican California. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1988. 9-70.
Krieger, Daniel. “The French Connection: French Vineyard Stock on the Roots of California’s Mission Vineyards.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 23.1 (2006): 131-143.
Lamb, Blaine. “Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s Report on the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the Several Counties of California.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 23.1 (2006): 50-84
Monroy, Douglas. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Monroy, Douglas. “The Creation and Re-Creation of Californio Society.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. pp. 173-95. Berkeley: University of California Press 1998.
Northrup, Marie E. Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850. Two volumes. Burbank: Southern California Genealogical Society, 1987.
Ogden, Adele. The California Sea Otter Trade — 1784-1848. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1941.
Osio, Antonio Maria. The History of California A Memoir of Mexican California. Translators and eds. Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996
Packman, Ana Bégué. Early California Hospitality: The Cookery Customs of Spanish California. Fresno, CA. : Academy Library Guild, 1953.
Voss, Barbara L. “Culture Contact and Colonial Practices: Archaeological Traces of Daily Life in Early San Francisco.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 20.1 (2003): 63-77
Weber, David J. Foreigners in their Native Land; Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973.
Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
Women in Early California
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2006.
Bouvier, Virginia M. Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840. Codes of Silence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Castañeda, Antonia I. Presidarias y Pobladores: Spanish-Mexican Women in Frontier Monterey, Alta California, 1770-1821. Ph.D. diss, Stanford University, 1990
Castañeda, Antonia I. “Gender, Race, and Culture: Spanish-Mexican Women in the Historiography of Frontier California.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 11.1 (1990): 8-20.
Castañeda, Antonia I. “The Political Economy of Nineteenth Century Stereotypes of Californians.” In Regions of La Raza: Changing Interpretations of Mexican American Regional History and Culture , edited by Antonio Rios-Bustamante, 189-211. Encino, CA: Floricanto Press, 1993
Castañeda, Antonia I. “Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family.” In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. pp. 230-59. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Chávez-García, Miroslava. Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.
de la Guerra Ord, Angustias. Occurences in Hispanic California. Francis Frice and William H. Ellison, transl. and eds. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1956.
Pérez, Eulalia. “An Old Woman and her Recollections.” in Three Memoirs of Mexican California. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1988. 71-105.
Baja California Missions
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. Guia De Manuscritos Concernientes a Baja California En Las Colecciones De La Biblioteca Bancroft. Guide to the Manuscripts Concerning Baja California in the Collections of the Bancroft Library. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 2002.
Crosby, Harry W. Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Crosby, Harry W. “Rancho de la Purificación, 1972.” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 21.1 (2004): 110
Crosby, Harry W. “Defining and Manning ‘The Portolá Expedition’” Boletín, The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. 22.2 (2005): 4-52
Moore, Jerry D. and Mary J. Norton. “‘I Solemnly Baptize:’ Religious Conversion and Native Demography in Northern Baja California.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 14.2 (1992): 201-215.
Vernon, Edward W. Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.