Tau PublishingA Short History of Mission San Miguel
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-935257-87-5
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-710-8
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-711-5
- Pages
- 45
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound second edition, May 2014 (first printed June 2011)
- Language
- English
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About this book
Murals, madness and murder: this is the history of Mission San Miguel Arcángel, rich with tales of poisoned padres and murderous desperados.
A Franciscan friar who lived, worked and studied at the mission, as its winemaker and tour guide, offers an insider’s account of the place, from the founding friars and the Salinan people to secularization, the desperado days, and the long work of renewal, rebuilding and reopening that continues today.
Combining the art of storytelling with well-researched facts and illustrated in color with photographs, many from the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, this is the perfect introduction to Mission San Miguel for readers of any age.
Inside
- The People and the Padres: the founding friars, the Salinan people, Fray Loco
- Mission Days, and “Whodunit? Poisoning at the Mission”
- Secularization and Murder at the Mission
- Desperado Days
- Re-beginning: renewal, reconstruction and reopening, 1878 to the present