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A History Of The Secularization Of The Missions Of California, Mervyn V. Miller
A History Of The Secularization Of The Missions Of California, Mervyn V. Miller
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The characteristic attitude of the major portion of native Californians toward the California Missions is one of innocent, ignorant acceptance combined with but little interest or concern. By this I mean that the Missions are accepted as forming part of the Historical beauty of the State of California, but the pa- sons for this belief are not known--nor the reasons for the fact that these old adobe churches moulded an older generation into a foundation stone upon which rests the present glory of a State unsurpassed in scenic or historic grandeur they exist, hence they were..