There is a wealth of information available for those interested in the missions of northern Sonora and southern Arizona.  Below are some links and suggested readings.

Websites

• Bernard (“Bunny”) L. Fontana’s An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O’odham (Papago Indians), Revised Edition
• Missions Initiative
• Tumacácori National Historical Park
• Mission 2000: Searchable Spanish Mission Records
• Documentary Relations of the Southwest Master Index
• University of Arizona Office of Ethnohistorical Research
• San Xavier del Bac Mission
• Patronato San Xavier
• Kino Heritage Society
• Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace – Mission Garden
• Misiones Coloniales (In Spanish, this website documents colonial missions of Chihuahua)
• Pimeria Alta Museum
• Exploring Colonial Mexico
• Presidio San Agustin del Tucson
• Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
• California Missions Foundation
• San Antonio Missions
• Colonial Mexico: Art and Architecture
• Mexican Murals
• El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro interactive map

Readings

• • Bleser, Nicholas, 2017. Tumacacóri: From Ranchería to National Park. Tucson: The Southwestern Mission Research Center.
  • Fontana, Bernard L., 2015. San Xavier del Bac: Portrait of a Desert Church. Tucson: The Southwestern Mission Research Center.
  • Wilder, Joseph Carleton (editor), 2014. “O’odham and the Pimería Alta,” Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer). Tucson: The Southwest Center, University of Arizona.
  • Griffith, James S., and Francisco Javier Manzo Taylor, 2007.  The Face of Christ in Sonora/El Rostro del Señor en Sonora. Tucson: Rio Nuevo Publishers.
  • Officer, James E., Mardith Schuetz-Miller, and Bernard Fontana (editors), 1996.  The Pimería Alta: Missions and More. Tucson: The Southwestern Mission Research Center.
  • Pickens, Buford (editor), 1993. The Missions of Northern Sonora: A 1935 Field Documentation. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
  • Griffith, James S., 1992.  Beliefs and Holy Places: A Spiritual Geography of the Pimería Alta. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
  • Simmons, Marc, 1991.  “Santiago: Reality and Myth.” In Simmons, Marc, Donna Pierce, and Joan Myers: Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
  • Polzer, S.J., Charles, 1976. A Kino Guide: His Missions – His Monuments. Tucson: The Southwestern Mission Research Center.
  • Eckhart, George B. and James S. Griffith, 1975.  “Temples in the Wilderness: the Spanish Churches of Northern Sonora: Their Architecture, Their Past and Present Appearance, and How to Reach Them.” Monograph No. 3 of the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson. 

SMRC PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE:

Ahlborn, Richard E.
1974    Saints of San Xavier                                                                                         10.00

Bleser, Nicholas
2017    Tumacácori: From Ranchería to National Park                                           14.95

Fontana, Bernard L.
2015    San Xavier del Bac: Portrait of a Desert Church, second edition             15.95

Officer, James E., Mardith Schuetz-Miller, Bernard L. Fontana (editors)
1996    The Pimería Alta: Missions & More                                                              15.00

Olvera H., Jorge
1998    Finding Father Kino: The Discovery of the Remains of Father                   30.00
            Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J.  (inside slip case)

Polzer, Charles, et al.
1986    Tucson: A Short History                                                                                    8.95

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