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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Life and Society at the Royal Spanish Presidio of San Agustn del Tucson, 1775-1856

Life and Society at the Royal Spanish Presidio of San Agustn del Tucson, 1775-1856

Herring, Patricia Roche

Paperback

Regional: Southwest

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ISBN10: 1604941960
ISBN13: 9781604941968
Publisher: Wheatmark Inc
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What was the reality of everyday life in frontier outposts such as the Tucson Presidio when the settlers' bare feet touched the dirt floors of their adobes? Picture the physical environment. Surrounded by mud bricks, a large moat around the Presidio was created by dirt-mud scraped from it to form the adobes. A forest of mesquite trees, so thick one could lose one's way, further decorated the area. It required woodcutters to mark the trees for guidance. Ancients and children picked up the twigs and branches of the mesquite loosed by the winds. A small lake lapped the sands of the desert. It could be so quiet one would hear the river coursing by amid the clucks, crows, and chirps of the fowl. Purple mountains scaled the foothills to the vast, blue firmament: the stars.

A large part of life centered around the bells. For example, an ecclesiastical circular issued in August of 1803 notified the chaplains of the royal presidios, including Tucson, on the manner of instructing the youth. Both sexes were included. It read: The chaplains of the above presidios...will instruct the resident families in the merits of obedience to their fathers...with regard to observance of Divine and human laws. Days of instruction will include Sundays and religious holidays...and on Saturdays family heads will send their children, servants, and slaves to learn Christian doctrine and hear its explanation. (Microfilm 811, UAL, parish Archives of Sonora and Sinaloa, reel 11.)

We are physical and spiritual descendants of the Tucson Presidio.

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