Category: History - American
What a wonderful movement was that wave of religious zeal, of proselyting fervor, that accompanied the great colonizing efforts of Spain in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. _Conquistadores and friars_--one as earnest as the other--swept over the New World....
States and nations, even as individuals, are often tempted in diverse ways to forsake the path of rectitude, and, for material gain, territorial acquisition, or other supposed g...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It would require many pages of this little book even to suggest the various rites, ceremonies and ideas connected with the ancient religion of the Palas. It was a strange mixtur...
4. CHAPTER IV.Every lover of the artistic and the picturesque on first seeing the bell-tower of Pala stands enraptured before its unique personality. And this word "personality" does not seem...
1. CHAPTER I.What a wonderful movement was that wave of religious zeal, of proselyting fervor, that accompanied the great colonizing efforts of Spain in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighte...
10. CHAPTER X.In Southern California water is an essential element in nearly all agricultural and horticultural development. In their own primitive fashion the Indians irrigated the lands lon...
7. CHAPTER VII.Cursed by the common fate of the Missions Pala suffered severely. In thirty years all its glory had departed as Mrs. Jackson graphically pictures in the preceding chapter. But P...
3. CHAPTER III.The study of the ancestors of our present-day Amerind has occupied the time and attention of many scholars with small results. Only when the ethnologist and antiquarian began to...
12. CHAPTER XII.The art instincts of primitive people naturally were exceedingly limited in expression. Their ignorance of tools not only restricted their opportunities for the development of h...
6. CHAPTER VI.When Helen Hunt Jackson, the gifted author of the romance _Ramona_--over which hundreds of thousands of Americans have shed bitter tears in deep sympathy with the wrongs perpetr...
5. CHAPTER V.The original purpose of the Spanish Council, as well as of the Church, in founding the Missions of California, was to train the Indians in the ways of Christianity and civilizat...
2. CHAPTER II.Many a time when I have been journeying between Pala and San Luis Rey, pictures have arisen in my mind of the energetic Peyri. I imagined him at his multifarious duties as archi...
13. CHAPTER XIII.In the preceding chapter I have presented, in a broad and casual manner, the work of the Pala basket-makers. They are not confined, however, to this as their only artistic indus...
8. CHAPTER VIII.In the restoration of Pala chapel the Landmarks Club of Los Angeles, incorporated "to conserve the Missions and other historic landmarks of Southern California," under the energ...
11. CHAPTER XI.To many white people an Indian is always what they conceive all Indians ever have been--wild, uncultivated, useless savages. Never was idea more mistaken and cruelly ignorant. A...
15. CHAPTER XV.In January of 1916 a storm swept over the whole of the Coast Country of California from north to south, doing considerable damage on every hand. In the Pala Valley the rain fell...