Primary Sources: American West

Four original manuscript narratives, 1744-1751, translated and annotated by Peter Masten Dunne.

a contemporary account of the beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona, by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., pioneer missionary explorer, cartographer, and ranchman, 1683-1711; pub. for the first time from the original manuscript in the archives of Mexico; tr. into English, ed. and annotated, by Herbert Eugene Bolton ...

relating to the admission of Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mexico and Oklahoma into the Union.

The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his Travels throught [sic] Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776