The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, see

This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.

Introduces the geography, history, people, and culture of the country known as the Gateway to South America.

First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of