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The Boletín

The Boletín series begins with Volume 20, No. 1, continuing the former Newsletter which had a run of 19 volumes. Back issues are available for purchase in our online store. An index of each issue is listed below.

Volume 20, No. 1, Fall 2003
(Boletín's Inaugural Issue)

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions, 1769-1836
     by James A. Sandos
Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom in Mexican California
     by Lisbeth Haas
Secularization in California and Texas
     by James E. Ivey
Conservation of Mission Art
     by Carol Kenyon
Yokuts, Spaniards, and Californios in the Southern San Joaquin Valley
     by Sasha Honig
Culture Contact and Colonial Practices: Archaeological Traces of Daily Life in Early San Francisco
     by Barbara L. Voss
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
     Book Reviews
CALIFORNIA VISTA

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Volume 21, No. 1, Fall 2004

Missions Aborted: California Indian Life on 19th Century Ranchos, 1834-1848
     by Stephen W. Silliman
Spaces of Change: Architecture and the Creation of A New Society in the California Missions
     by Catherine R. Ettinger
The California Journal of Lt. Edward Belcher Aboard H.M.S. Blossom in 1826 and 1827
     GlennFarris, Maurice Hodgson, & Andrew David, eds., Annotated by Glenn Farris
Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Origin of California's First Composer and the Early Mission Style Part I
     by Craig H. Russell
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES:
     San Miguel Archangel: Pasados, Presente y Futuro, by Dan Krieger
CALIFORNIA VOICES

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Volume 21, No. 2, 2004

Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Origins of California's First Composer and the Early Mission Style (Part II)
     by Craig H. Russell
The Transit of Venus in 1769: Launching Pad for European Exploration in the Pacific during the Late Eighteenth Century
     by Iris H. W. Engstrand,
SYMPOSIUM:
      Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Mission
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES
      Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
      by Daniel Kreiger
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
     A Musical Day Of Times Past At The Spanish Colonial Missions Of Alta California, Featuring La Misa En Sol By Fr. Juan Bautista Sancho.
      [CD, recorded live at the 21st Annual CMSA Conference at Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, February 13, 2004; a copy was enclosed in this issue for members.]
IN MEMORIAM: Robert (Bob) Ryal Miller; Fr. Virgilio Biasol, O.F.M.
CALIFORNIA VISTAS: Mission San Carlos Borromeo, 1949. Photo.

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Volume 22, No. 1, 2005

RESTORATION OF THE MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO GREAT STONE CHURCH
Preserving The Jewel Of The Missions: San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church, 1806-2004.
     by Robert G. Shafer And Christopher Loomis
Three Eras Of Construction At The San Juan Capistrano Mission Church: 1800, 1900, and 2000
     by Nels Roselund
Preserving The Great Stone Church: A Project To Conserve The Original Stone Flooring Of The Sanctuary
     by Debora De Moraes Rodrigues And Sherry N. DeFreece
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
      A New Mission Indian Manuscrpt From The San Francisco Bay Area
      by Juliette Blevins And Victor Golla
TRIBUTE TO NORMAN NEUERBURG
     Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Norman Neuerburg: Hail And Farewell and Msgr. Francis J. Weber, Norman Neuerburg (1926-1997).
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
Book Reviews
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES:
     I Was Born An Indian
     by Andrew A. Galvan,
IN MEMORIAM: Edna Kimbro
CALIFORNIA VISTAS: Mission San Luis Rey. Three Indian Women At The Re-Dedication Of Mission San Luis Rey On May 12, 1893. (Photo)

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Volume 22, No. 2, 2005

A Note from the Editors.
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
Defining and Manning "The Portolá Expedition, by Harry W. Crosby
Pablo Tac's Vocal Remembrance of "Californian"
     by Karl Kottman,
SYMPOSIUM:
     Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
CORNERSTONES:
     A Report from the California Missions Foundation
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
Book Reviews
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES:
     Marketing The Mission Revival: Commercial Art and the Image of Hispanic California
     by Blaine P. Lamb
IN MEMORIAM: Peter Gerhard (1920-2006)
VISTAS: Stereographic Image of Eulalia Pérez

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Volume 23, No. 1, 2006

Santa Bárbara’s Presidio in Imperial Perspective: Citadel and Theater Set
     by David J. Weber
St. Peter the Aleut: Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence
     by Raymond F. Bucko, S. J.
Comment on Raymond Bucko’s “St. Peter the Aleut: Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence”
     by James A. Sandos
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
Mariano Guadalupe Vellejo’s Report on the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the Several Counties of California,
     by Blaine Lamb,
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
     Three Letters from the Pen of Fray Pedro Font
CORNERSTONES:
     A Report from the California Missions Foundation, by Knox Mellon
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
Book Reviews
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES:
     The French Connection: French Vineyard Stock on the Roots of California’s Mission Vineyards
     by Daniel Krieger,
CALIFORNIA VISTAS Photo of Mariano Guadalupe Valllejo watching children at play

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Volume 23, No. 2, 2006 and Volume 24, No. 1, 2007 (Double Issue)

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
Helen Hunt Jackson And The California Mission Indians: Selected Letters.
     by Valerie Sherer Mathes
Historical Presence And Purpose in Antonio María Osio’s La historia de Alta California and Mariano Guadalupe Valleo’s Recuerdos históricos y
personales tocante a la Alta California.
     by Michelle Morton
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS: Paolo Emilio Botta’s Observations On The Inhabitants Of California.
     Translated By Anne Milano Appel
CORNERSTONES: Preserving the Native American Artistic Legacy In The California Missions.
     by Cristina W. Ross
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES: Searching For Lucía: Chumash Maestra Of The Monjerío At Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa.
     by Betsy Bertrando
CALIFORNIA VISTAS Photo of Antonio Coronel and wife Mariana

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Volume 24, No. 2, 2007

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
Toypurina’s Revolt Religious Conflict at Mission San Gabriel In 1785
     by James A. Sandos
Tesoros De Los Archivos: Revolt at Mission San Gabriel, October 25, 1785 Judicial Proceedings and Related Documents.
     Translated From Spanish To English By Rose Marie Beebe And Robert M. Senkewic
Toypuria’s Descendants Three Generations of an Alta California Family.
     by John R. Johnson and William M. Williams
CORNERSTONES: Safeguarding the Heritage of the California Missions. ''
     by Rubén G. Mendoza
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES: The Stations of the Cross Revisited, Reconsidered, And Revised (Sort Of).
     by George Harwood Phillips
CALIFORNIA VISTAS Color reproductions of two paintings of Mission San Gabriel by or attributed to Ferdinand Deppe

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Volume 25, No. 1 2008

The Circulation of Flemish Prints in Mexican Missions and the Creation of a New Visual Narrative, 1630-1800.
     by Cristina Cruz González
Mission San Antonio de Padua A Chronology of Building.
     by David N. Hoover and Robert L. Hoover
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS: Pablo Tac’s Manuscript “Concerning the Californians.”
     by Karl A. Kottman
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
CALIFORNIA VISTAS Photos of Doña Perfecta Encinal of Mission San Antonio de Padua

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Volume 25, No. 2, 2008

Visual Representations of Religious Conversion in Spanish American Missions
by Robert H. Jackson
Preliminary Observations on Angels in Religious Art in New Spain
by Susan Anderson Kerr
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS: "A Visit to Baja California in 1956" The Diary of Fr. Maynard Geiger, O.F.M.
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
CALIFORNIA VISTAS:
Photo of Baja California Norte ranchero Sr. Antonio Acuña with statue of St. Dominic (now disappeared)
originally in Mission San Fernando de Velicatá; explanatory note by Michael Mathes

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