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Books To learn more about the Spanish missions, see: Habig, Marion A., O.F.M. Spanish Texas Pilgrimage: The Old Franciscan Missions and Other Spanish Settlements of Texas, 1632-1821. Chicago, Ill.: Franciscan Herald Press, 1990. An in-depth account of Father Habig's expeditions to the sites of the old Spanish missions, this book is a valuable resource. Baldridge, Carol. Texas Missions FACT CARDS. Fremont, Calif.: Toucan Valley Publications, Inc., 1998. @ $34.00 ( www.toucanvalley.com ). Although these fact cards are developed for elementary school students, they provide a wonderful overview and summary of thirty Texas missions as well as providing useful introductory explanations about the mission system, the presidio s, the pueblos, the Franciscans, and life in early missions. This is a highly recommended resource for an introduction to Spanish missions. Torres, Luis. Voices from the San Antonio Missions . Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech University Press, 1997. @$24.95 (1-800-832-4042). This book presents eighteen oral histories of predominantly Mexican-American people whose individual lives are intimately connected to a San Antonio mission. The interviews present a social history of life in and around the missions that illustrates the connectedness of their daily lives and the missions. The interviews convey the passions of those attempting to keep alive a cherished past. Wakely, David (photographer), and Thomas A. Drain. A Sense of Mission: Historic Churches of the Southwest. San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 1994. @$18.95 . This book of beautiful color photographs captures the distinctive exterior and interior architectural and artistic details of twenty-nine of the unique Spanish missions of the Southwest. Text by Thomas Drain provides a brief history of the founding of each mission. N. Scott Momaday offers a Native-American perspective of the missions.
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