A Kino Keepsake

EUSEBIO FRANCISCO KINO

Publication: Friends of the University of Arizona Library, 1991, Tucson

First edition thus. 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers, n. p. [28 pp.], map on rear flap fold, Facsimile of original document laid-in to rear cover. This is a facsimile of an original Eusebio Francisco Kino field diary, preserved at the University of Arizona Library, describing Southern Arizona in 1699. "It records his journey from Dolores, located some hundred thirty miles south by southwest of Tucson and San Xavier del Bac - both mentioned in the diary, northwest to the vicinity of the Picacho mountains, visible from Tucson today some forty miles to the north northwest; then back to San Xavier and westwards through the Papago country down to the vicinity of modern Lukeville; finally, completing the roughly triangular route by returning to Dolores via Magdalena." Fine copy.