As a number of us are schlepping to Sonoma Monday. I thought I'd throw this book into the mix.
Robert S. Smilie, 1975
"The Sonoma Mission is the first authentic account, based on primary sources, of the mission's history, from 1823, the year it was founded by the zealous Padea Jose Altamira, to the celebration of its sesquicentennial year in 1973. Many of the interesting and relatively unknown facts presented in The Sonoma Mission are taken from the diaries and reports of the dedicated padres."
"The changing fortunes of the Sonoma Mission and its community are represented in many old and rare phtographs and drawings, some of which date back to the mid-1880s."
Greg