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Mission of Sorrows: Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691-1767
by Kessel, John
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- first
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Tucson, AZ (1970): University of Arizona. First Edition. Quarto. 224p. index; foreword by Ernest J. Burrus. Jesuit missions to Pimas along Arizona's Santa Cruz River. An in-depth study of a single missionary center, Kessell describes in detail the daily round of the Padres in their activities as missionaries, educators, governors, and intercessors among the often indifferent and occasionally hostile Pimas. Bound in maroon pictorial gilt cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, a small circular red mark to upper corner of front endpaper, near fine in very good pictorial dust jacket with some off-setting to front panel.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027191
- Title
- Mission of Sorrows: Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691-1767
- Author
- Kessel, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Arizona
- Place of Publication
- Tucson, AZ (1970)
- Keywords
- Pimas; Jesuits in the Southwest, 17th & 18th Centuries; Santa Cruz River (AZ)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arizona;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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