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Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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l Bac in its palmy days.He made various entradas into the northern part of theState and visited far away California. From Tubacstarted de Anza, the valiant captain who founded SanFrancisco, accompanied by Fray Pedro Font, one ofGarces Franciscan coadjutors, all of which is more fullyrelated elsewhere. In the earlier part of this chapter I have recountedsome of the efforts of the Franciscans to convert theHopi — or Moqui as they were called — of the north.After the rebellion of 1680, and the destruction ofAwatobi, they most stubbornly refused all missionaryproffers, and equally obstinate were they in their deter-mination not to yield again to the yoke of the Spanishoppressors. On Inscription Rock, on the road between Zuni andAcoma, is found an inscription, the translation of whichis as follows: In the year 1716 on the 26th of Augustpassed by here Don Feliz Martinez, Governor and Cap-tain-General of this Kingdom, to the reduction andconquest of Moqui; and in his company the Reverend
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Jesuits and Franciscans in Arizona 49 Father Fray Antonio Camargo, Custodian and Judge-Ecclesiastic. Prior to 1774, Fray Silvestre Velez Escalante, one ofthe New Mexico friars called upon to give their viewsas to the feasibility and practicability of a road connect-ing the missions of this region with those of California,enthusiastically approved the project. Knowing littleor nothing of the country, he urged the establishment ofa route from Monterey eastward, almost in a direct lineto Santa Fe. And to prove his belief in his recommen-dation he started from Santa Fe, in 1774, with a partyof nine, including Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez,to reach Monterey by this northern route. They crossedpart of Colorado and Utah, got lost, struck southward,reached the Hopi towns, spent eight days there, and he re-ported that he found a population of 7,494 on the threemesas, two-thirds of whom were at Oraibi. But theywould have none of him, his church or his people. The same treatment was accorded

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