Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast

Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast is the second volume in a series chronicling the Jesuits' remarkable efforts in Spanish North America between their arrival in 1572 and their expulsion nearly 200 years later. Following Dr. Jacobsen’s first volume, which explored the establishment and expansion of Jesuit educational institutions in New Spain, this work by Dr. Dunne shifts focus to the missionaries’ courageous endeavors among the indigenous peoples of the West Coast. Beginning with Gonza...