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Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés

(Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781)

Garces Memorial Circle — with a statue honoring explorer Francisco Garcés, located in Bakersfield, California.
He was a Spanish explorer, active in Colonial California and Southwestern North America for the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Francisco Garcés discovered the first route to the southern San Joaquin Valley (site of Bakersfield) through the Old Tejon Pass, over the Tehachapi Mountains, from the Mojave Desert and Spanish colonial Mexico.

Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés O.F.M. (April 12, 1738 – July 18, 1781) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who served as a missionary and explorer in the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. He explored much of the southwestern region of North America, including present day Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, and the U.S. states of Arizona and California. (From Wikipedia)

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Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899

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Books about Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés:

2 additional books about Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés in the extended shelves:

Francisco Garcés : pioneer padre of Kern (Pub. by the Kern County Historical Society and the County of Kern through its Chamber of Commerce, 1946), by Ardis Manly Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
The work of Fray Francisco Garces in the Southwest. (1915), by Esperanza Carrillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Books by Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés:

Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781: On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer: The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garcés (Missionary Priest) in His Travels Through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776 (2 volumes; New York: F. P. Harper, 1900), ed. by Elliott Coues

Additional books by Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés in the extended shelves:

Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781: On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels throught Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776 (F. P. Harper, 1900), also by Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781: On the trail of a Spanish pioneer : the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776 (F.P. Harper, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)

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