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• The United Church home missions (Augsburg Pub. House, 1909), by Olaf Morgan Norlie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our home mission work : an outline study of the home mission work of the Reformed Church in the United States (Philadelphia : Publication and Sunday school board of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1914., 1914), by Charles E. Schaefer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gipsy Smith Missions in America : a volume commemorative of his sixth evangelistic campaign in the United States, 1906-1907 (Interdenominational Pub. Co., 1907), by Gipsy Smith and Edward E. Bayliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bishop Jackson Kemper and the northwest mission (1915), by Katharine Jeanne Gallagher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Baptist home missions in North America : including a full report of the proceedings and addresses of the jubilee meeting, and a historical sketch of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, historical tables, etc. 1832-1882. (Baptist Home Mission Rooms, 1883), by N.Y.) American Baptist Home Mission Society. Meeting 1882 : New York and American Baptist Home Mission Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs, Historical and Edifying, of a Missionary Apostolic of the Order of Saint Dominic Among Various Indian Tribes and Among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States of America, by Samuel Mazzuchelli, trans. by Mary Benedicta Kennedy (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Memoirs, historical and edifying : of a missionary apostolic of the Order of Saint Dominic among various Indian tribes and among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States of America (W.F. Hall Printing Company, 1915), by Samuel Mazzuchelli, Mary Benedicta Kennedy, John Ireland, and Mary Benedicta Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The call to united Christian youth action : a summary report (United Christian Youth Movement, 1952), by United Christian Youth Movement (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The story of the Bishop Rowe Hospital in Skagway, Alaska (Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1905), by Isabel M. Emberley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Metlakahtla : a true narrative of the red man (Ram's Horn Company, 1904), by George T. B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostle of Alaska the story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla (Fleming H. Revell, 1909), by Jno. W. Arctander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostle of Alaska; the story of William Duncan, of Metlakahtla (Fleming H. Revell co., 1909), by Jno. W. Arctander (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and its relation to Native American traditions-- : an attempt at a multicultural society, 1794-1912 (Library of Congress :, 1997), by V. V. Ivanov (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and its relation to Native American traditions-- : an attempt at a multicultural society, 1794-1912 (Library of Congress :, 1997), by V. V. Ivanov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zhiznʹ valaamskago monakha Germana, amerikanskago missionera. (Synodalʹnai︠a︡ tip., 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)

• San Antonio de Padua: The Mission in the Sierras (Missions and Missionaries of California, new series, local history; Santa Barbara, CA: Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Famous Missions of California, by William Henry Hudson (Gutenberg text)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
• The missions of California : their establishment, progress and decay (Payot Upham, 1903), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1914), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old missions of Caifornia. (W. Doxey, 1893), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The famous missions of California (Dodge Publishing Company, 1901), by William Henry Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions of California and the old Southwest (A. C. McClurg, 1912), by Jesse S. Hildrup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old missions of California (W. Doxey, 1893), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address on the opening of the fair for the erection of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, on Van Ness Avenue, November 15th, 1887, at the Mechanics' Pavilion (James H. Barry, printer, 1887), by Philip Augustine Roach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au christianisme; un détail des différens voyages & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son golfe & la côte de la Mer du Sud, enrichie de la carte du pays & des mers adjacentes (Chez Durand, libraire ..., 1767), by Miguèl Venegas and Andrés Marcos Burriel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions of California : their establishment, progress and decay (W. Doxey, 1897), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• San Miguel, Arcangel : the mission on the highway (Mission Santa Barbara, 1931), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mission San Juan Bautista : a school of church music (Mission Santa Barbara, 1931), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mission La Concepcion Purisima de Maria Santisima (Mission Santa Barbara, 1932), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The missions and missionaries of California (J.H. Barry, 1913), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Writings of Junípero Serra (3 public domain volumes (4th is still under copyright), covering up to 1780; Washington: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955-1956), by Junípero Serra, ed. by Antonine Tibesar (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Famous Missions of California, by William Henry Hudson (Gutenberg text)
• California's mission tour. (Automobile Club of Southern California, 1915), by Automobile Club of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• The famous missions of California (Dodge Publishing Company, 1901), by William Henry Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions of California and the old Southwest (A. C. McClurg, 1907), by Jesse S. Hildrup (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions of California : their establishment, progress and decay (W. Doxey, 1897), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some facts about Santa Barbara Mission (Univ. of San Francisco Press, 1932), by James A. Colligan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Old missions of Caifornia. (W. Doxey, 1893), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old missions of Caifornia. (W. Doxey, 1893), by Laura Bride Powers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lessons from the Hawaiian Islands (s.n., 1884), by S. C. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary paper. No. 22. (The Board, 1838), by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)

• Missionary paper. No. 22. (The Board, 1838), by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of Shawnee Methodist Mission and Indian Manual Labor School (Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society, 1939), by Martha B. Caldwell, ed. by Kirke Mechem (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voices from the wilderness (Edwards, 1961), by Maurice F Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labors of Rt. Rev. Frederic Baraga, first bishop of Marquette, Mich. to which are added short sketches of the lives and labors of other Indian missionaries of the Northwest (M.H. Wiltzius, 1900), by Chrysostom Verwyst (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Mexico missions in the middle eighteenth century (1922), by Ettie Miriam Healey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Expedition of Father Gaspar Jose de Solis into Texas, 1767-1768: Translation of Sources, Introduction and Notes (typescript of UC Berkeley master's thesis, 1915), by Gaspar José de Solís, ed. by George Howden
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The destruction of the San Saba Mission and the Parilla [i.e. Parrilla] Expedition (1923), by Henry Easton Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early missions in Wisconsin. (s.n., 1886), by Stephen D. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)

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