Some letters of Father Joseph Neumann S. J., Missionary to the heathen Tarahumara: together with his Historia Seditionum

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Abandonment and Re-establishment of the Missions, circa 1700

Letter by Father Joseph Neumann discussion the abandonment and re-establishment of the Spanish Missions in Tarahumara territory, circa 1700. 

Collection area: Borderlands

Collection dates: 1648-1732

About this collection

Typescript, translation of letters concerning Neumann's work amoung the Tarahumaran Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico. Includes history of the rebellions.

Collected by Dr. Herbert E. Bolton; translated by Dr. M.L. Reynolds; edited and with an introduction by Allan Christelow.

Historical background

Jesuit missionary.

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