| | 94 | Author: | Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Derrotero de los Padres Fray Francisco Atanacio Domínguez, and Fr. Silvestre Vélez, de Escalante, en sus exploraciónes, desde las missiones de Zuñy del Nuevo Mexico, hasta las ymmediaciones de Monte Rey de California
1776-1777 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1776-1777 | | | | Abstract: | Vélez de Escalante, better known as Escalante, was a Spanish Franciscan missionary sent to New Mexico in 1774;
he was the recorder of this 1776 expedition. Domínguez, a Mexican Franciscan priest, was his ecclesiastical superior
and leader of the expedition. Collection includes eighteenth-century copy of the diary kept by Vélez de Escalante
on his expedition with Dominguez through the four corners area of the American Southwest, July 29, 1776 to Jan. 2, 1777. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Explorers -- New Spain. | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. | Pueblo Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 96 | Author: | Russell, Robert Parke. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Russell's La Paz County: a Historical Anthology in Four Volumes
1986 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1986 | | | | Abstract: | La Paz County was created in 1983 from Yuma County, Ariz. This collection contains a typescript compilation, 4 vols.,
of newspaper and magazine articles concerning La Paz County, Ariz.; chiefly published in the Arizona Sentinel from 1850-1911.
Vol. 4 contains name and subject indexes. Topics include mines and mining, army, postal service, Native Americans, transportation,
and freighting. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- La Paz County -- History. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- La Paz County -- History. | Postal service -- Arizona -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 100 | Author: | Martin, George Castor, 1885- | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Who Were the Big Bend Basket-Makers?
1939 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1939 | | | | Abstract: | Typescript about the archaeology of early native peoples in the southwest region of Texas and across the border into Coahuila, Mexico. Martin
describes a culture, also referred to as Toboso, that he has named the Big Bend Basket-Makers, because of similarities with the Basket Makers
of Arizona and New Mexico. He discusses linguistic groups and migrations, as well as diagnostic traits related to skull shape, textiles, baskets,
cloud-blowers, and projectile points. Photographs of a map and projectile points are attached. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Coahuila (State) -- Antiquities. | Indians of North America -- Texas -- Antiquities. | Projectile points -- Texas -- Photographs. | Toboso Indians. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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