Chapter 2: Spanish San Diego

10. Resources

Books to Read

The first published account of the founding of San Diego

Raymond Brandes, trans. The Costansó Narrative of the Portolá Expedition. Newhall: Hogarth Press, 1970.

A severe criticism of the California Missions written by Indian historians.

Costo and Jeannette Henry Costo, eds., The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. Michigan: Indian Historian Press, 1987.

A first-hand account of San Diego by one of its early settlers.

Martin Cole and Henry Wallace eds. and Arthur P. Botello, trans., Don Pío Pico's Historical Narrative. Los Angeles: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1973.

A critical view of the missions written by an Anthropologist.

Sherburne F. Cook. The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976.

Websites

• An Illustrated Glossary of terms relevant to art, architecture, and mission life
• California History Collection: The Missions

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