Must Read Literature About Kino

Cabalgando con Kino
Graphic narrative (comic book format) published by the State of Sonora in 2011 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Padre Kino's death. 36 page document is in pdf format.

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Cabalgando con Kino

Journalistic Summary of Bolton's Favores Celestiales
Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper - Section 2
September 30, 1921
By Alex T. Bird
Article is a detailed summary of Kino life and work based on the contents of Bolton's 1919 translation of Kino's Favores Celestiales. The summary spans 9 newspaper pages.

Editor Note: One of the headlines that appears on page 5 summarizes Kino's struggles: "'Common Enemy' Arises Among Spaniards in Mexico Who Form Cabal Against Kino and Serve to Incite Indians to Uprisings" page 5

Baja California Reports During Kino's Exploration and Mainland Provisioning
 

Admiral Don Isidro Atondo to Viceroy de la Cerda y Aragon (1683)
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Father Rector Juan María Salvatierra to Viceroy de la Cueva (1705)
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Editor Note:
Great historical accounts about the Spanish settlement of today's Baja California Peninsula, reported by Kino co-workers.

The letters translated in English and Spanish are from the book: 

A Documentary History, Volume Two, Part One:
The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora, 1700-1765
by Charles W. Polzer and Thomas E. Sheridan, Editors and Translators

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A Campaign Against the Pimas

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Pima Campaign Map
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Editor Note: Described by editors as an extraordinary account, the chapter "A Campaign Against the Pimas" contains the translation in English and Spanish of the report of military leaders of the campaign against the O'odham living in the Western Pimeria Alta in response to the Pima Revolt of 1695 and Padre Kino's role as peacemaker.

The Chapter and Map are from book
Northern Frontier of New Spain
A Documentary History, Volume I, 1570-1700
Thomas H. Naylor and Charles W. Polzer, Editors and Translators

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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers:
Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856
John L. Kessell

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History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith:
Amongst the Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World
Andrés Pérez de Ribas, S.J.

Contributors: Daniel T. Reff, Maureen Ahern, Richard K. Danford

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Historian Herbert E. Bolton considered missionary Andrés Pérez de Ribas's history of the Jesuit missions to be one of the greatest books about the Spanish Colonial era. The book described Spanish and Indian relations in Northern New Spain, just before the Jesuit Expulsion in 1767.