Table of Contents:
  • The California armada of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo / by Harry Kelsey
  • Symbolic acts of sovereignty in Spanish California / by Manual P. Servín
  • Juan Crespí : Southern California's first chronicler / by Raymund F. Wood
  • Gaspar de Portolá : disenchanted conquistador of Spanish upper California / by Donald A. Nuttall
  • Junípero Serra and his approach to the Indians / by Francis F. Guest
  • The confirmation controversy of 1779, Serra vs. Neve : a rationale / by William E. Evans
  • Los Angeles, California : the question of the city's original Spanish name / by Theodore E. Treutlein
  • Francisco Garcés : explorer of southern California / by Raymund F. Wood
  • Atla California's four fortresses / by Richard S. Whitehead
  • The building of Mission San Gabriel, 1771-1828 / by Maynard J. Geiger
  • Adobe interiors in Spanish California / by William M. Mason
  • California ranchos : their Hispanic heritage / by Iris H.W. Engstrand
  • The story of California's first libraries / by Maynard J. Geiger
  • The function of prints in the California missions / by Norman Neuerburg
  • Franciscan colonization of Santa Barbara / by Marvin W. Mikesell
  • The caring colony : Alta California's participation in Spain's foreign affairs / by David J. Langum
  • No settlement without women : three Spanish California settlement schemes, 1790-1800 / by Salomé Hernández
  • The economy of the Alta California missions, 1803-21 / by Robert Archibald
  • Smallpox immunization in Alta California : a story based on José Estrada's 1821 postscript / by Robert J. Moes.