A Harvest of Reluctant Souls: The Memorial of Fray Alonso De Benavides, 1630

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Nearly four hundred years old, this unique classic of Southwestern American history is now to be had in a brand new translation to a wide reading public. Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan and third head of the mission churches of New Mexico, published this highly engaging book in 1630 as his official report to the king of Spain.
In 1625, Father Benavides and his party traveled north from Mexico City by way of creaking oxcart and muleback to succeed in the mission fields of New Mexico. A keen observer, Benavides described New Mexico as a peculiar land of frozen rivers, Indian citadels, and elusive mines full of silver and garnets. Benavides and his Franciscan brothers built schools, erected churches, engineered peace treaties, gazed in awe at endless miles of buffalo grazing placidly at the Great Plains, and were said to accomplish miracles.
The most thorough and riveting account ever written of Southwestern life within the early seventeenth century, A Harvest of Reluctant Souls is without delay medieval and a tale of the Renaissance – a portrait of the Pueblos, the Apaches, and the Navajos at a time of fundamental change of their lives.

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