The California Missions: A Pictorial History
- ISBN-10
- 037605171X
- ISBN-13
- 9780376051714
- Series
- The California Missions
- Category
- History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Lane Publishing Company
- Author
- Dorothy Krell
Description
Numerous photographs complement a history of California's twenty-one Spanish missions, historic relics of the industrious colonists.
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- 1996-12-01
- 324 pages
- Paperback
- Oxmoor House
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