Tumacacori's Yesterdays
Jackson E. 1951. Tumacacori's Yesterdays. Southwestern Monuments Association Popular Series. No. 6. Southwestern Monuments Association. Santa Fe, New Mexico
This booklet is published by the Southwestern Monuments Association in keeping with one of its objectives, to provide accurate and authentic information about the Southwest.On U. S. Highway 89, a scant 18 miles north of the Mexican border, lies one of America's most historic landmarks, the mission church of San Jose de Tumacacori (tooma-COCK-oree). At this picturesque spot in the fertile Santa Cruz Valley, Christianity was ushered into what is now southern Arizona.Over two and a half centuries ago, indomitable missionary priests brought a new religious concept into one of the most hostile Indian frontiers of this hemisphere. This concept took root, struggled for growth, and flowered after more than a hundred years in the paradox of an Indian-built edifice to the new God.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Jackson, Earl
- Date of Issue
- 1951
- Publisher
- Southwestern Monuments Association
- Units
- HIST , TUMA
- Keywords
- Archeology, Chronology, ehistory, Franciscans, History, Jesuit pioneering, Mission without missionaries, National Monument, Ruins, the church, Treasure of Tumacacori