Padre Francisco Garcés

"Writing of Yuma and its history, Donald Page, in Arizona Historical Review April 1830 says: "Garces received his crown of martyrdom at the hands of the Yuma Indians, at the newly established mission of La Purisima Concepcion, close to the site of Fort Yuma, On July 17, 1781, when the Spanish Padres, settlers, and soldiers at that place and at San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuner, 8 leagues down the Colorado river, were all massacred. The padre's body was removed to San Pedro de Tubutama where it was re-interred with all the honors due a fallen "Soldier of the Cross." And thus passed Tucson's founder."

Barnes, Will C. Arizona Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1997.
pp. 499-500

Websites

Web de Anza--  Diary of Padre Francisco Garcés
http://anza.uoregon.edu/garces74.html

Desert Documentary- The Founding of Tucson
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/desertdoc/founding.htm

Route taken by Francisco Garces
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/set/pimeria/eighth/1777.html
 

Books/Manuscripts

Francisco Garcés, pioneer padre of Kern, by Ardis M. Walker; illustrations by Joan Cullimore.
F786 .G217 W3

Francisco Garcés and New Spain's northwestern frontier, 1768-1781 / by Scott Jarvis Maughan.
F786 .M38x

On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garces (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776. [Microform] Translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes, by Elliott Coues ...
F786 .G21 v.1

The maverick priest : Father Garces / by Peter R. Odens.
F786 .O33x