List of full page text online articles by California Mission Studies Assocation

California Mission Studies Association

Articles
on
California's Mission Period

The primary goal of the California Mission Studies Association (CMSA) is to further the study and understanding of the people, culture and history of the California Missions. To meet this goal, this web-page will include full-text Articles such as those that follow.

FULL-TEXT ARTICLES
Adamo, Joseph. " Soldados De Cuera"
Bertrando, Luther. "Copper Basin Found in San Luis Obispo County--Is It from the Mission Period?"
Burch, Glenn. "Doña María of Two Adobes."
Cleary, Brother Guire. " Poverty and Wealth: Franciscan Dilemma in the Alta California of 1769-1835."
Davis, Thom. "A Day in the Life of a Friar." "California's Inland Chain of Missions."
Harley, R. Bruce. "Agua Mansa: An Outpost of San Gabriel, 1842-1850." "The San Bernardino Estancias."
Honig, Sasha. "The Presidios of Alta California."
Hoover, Robert. "Stealing California's Mission Past." "Theft from Mission San Antonio." NEW
Hornbeck, David. "The Past in California's Landscape."
Iversen, Eve. "Wine at the California Missions."
Ivey, Jake. "Mission Vocabulary."
Jackson, Robert H. with Anne Gardzina. "Agriculture, Drought, and Chumash Congregation in California Missions (1782-1834)."
Mathes, W. Michael. "The Earliest Libraries in the Californias: Jesuit Missions of Baja California."
McCummins, Joe. "Horno Construction Techniques at La Purísima Mission State Historic Park."
Neuerburg, Norman. "Translator's Notebook: The Mission Church and Its Furnishings."
Olmstead, Cres. "The History of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library."
Pauley, Kenneth. "Weights and Measurements in California's Mission Period: Part I - Linear Measurements." "Weights and Measurements in California's Mission Period: Part II - Area Measurements." "Weights and Measurements in California's Mission Period: Part III - Volume Measurements."
Schafer, Robert G. "Critiquing the Critics: Assessing California's Native Peoples."
Sortomme, Jerry "Restoring Heritage Plants from California's Missions."
Summers, William John. "California Mission Music."

The CMSA website also includes the following online resources:

--Archaeological, Conservation & Preservation Projects at California Missions

--Directory of the 21 California Missions, Presidios, Pueblos, Adobes, Asistencias, Estancias, and Ranchos (addresses, phone numbers, and visitor information)

--Illustrated Glossary of Mission Terms (photographs and terms relevant to mission art, architecture, and social, economic, and ecological aspects of mission establishment)