Oral History Interview, Mission San Xavier del Bac, with Bernard Fontana
Excerpt from a transcription of an oral history with Father Nicholas Perschl conducted by Bernard L. Fontana, O.F.M., 1959.
Collection area: University of Arizona
Collection dates: 1959
Verbatim transcript of interview at Mission San Xavier del Bac between Father Nicholas Perschl, O.F.M., and Bernard L. Fontana, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Interview concerns period from 1914 to 1923, when Perschl was responsible for the areas of Tucson, Ariz. and Mission San Xavier del Bac.
Article based on this interview was published in Kiva, v. 24, no. 3, February 1959.
Franciscan priest and missionary, to Tohono O'Odham, Pima and Apache peoples.
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