Excerpt: ... from San Francisco and San Carlos, and the guard returned. But it was not long before the Indians developed an unholy love for contraband beef, and Moraga and his soldiers were sent for to capture and punish the thieves. Three of them were killed, but even then depredations occasionally continued. At the end of the year there had been sixty-seven baptisms, including eight adults, and twenty-five deaths. The present is the third site occupied by Santa Clara. The Mission was originally established some three ...
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Excerpt: ... from San Francisco and San Carlos, and the guard returned. But it was not long before the Indians developed an unholy love for contraband beef, and Moraga and his soldiers were sent for to capture and punish the thieves. Three of them were killed, but even then depredations occasionally continued. At the end of the year there had been sixty-seven baptisms, including eight adults, and twenty-five deaths. The present is the third site occupied by Santa Clara. The Mission was originally established some three miles away, near Alviso, at the headwaters of the San Francisco Bay, near the river Guadalupe, on a site called by the Indians So-co-is-u-ka (laurel wood). It was probably located there on account of its being the chief rendezvous of the Indians, fishing being good, the river having an abundance of salmon trout. The Mission remained there only a short time, as the waters rose twice in 1779, and washed it out. Then the padres removed, in 1780-1782, and built about 150 yards southwest of the present broad-gauge (Southern Pacific) depot, where quite recently traces were found of the old adobe walls. They remained at this spot, deeming the location good, until an earthquake in 1812 gave them considerable trouble. A second earthquake in 1818 so injured their buildings that they felt compelled to move to the present site, which has been occupied ever since. The Mission Church and other buildings were begun in 1818, and finally dedicated in 1822. The site was called by the Indians Gerguensun--the Valley of the Oaks. On the 29th of November, 1777, the pueblo of San Jos
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Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1913. First edition [1913]. History of the missions of California and Mexico, illustrated with black and white plates. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, 287 pages. Covers edgeworn and soiled, rear hinge lightly cracked, front free endpaper absent, text block sound with no loosened pages, pages clean and free from chips, tears, names or markings. Personal name stamped on bottom edge. Externally worn, internally much better, a sound copy overall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket Present. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 287 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. "The story of the Old Missions of California is perennially new. The interest in the ancient and dilapidated buildings and their history increases with each year." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, gilt lettering is bright onthe spine and cover.
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