WEST COAST HISTORY IN MINIATURE

Occupation of Lower California by the Jesuits

The 1885 Edition of B.F. Alley and J.P. Munro-Fraser’s book Washington Territory that we re-published in 1985 was so exquisitely written history of the west coast of America in a mixed style of realism and poetics, flare and fire, that over the years since I first read it in 1985 that I have decided to re-issue its publication again, this time with additional information, history and illustrations in 2021, but in megabytes.
It is, without doubt, the most outstanding book re-published anew by Parsons Publishing Company in our thirty-five years of existence. In this new era of instant news bites and quick news headlines, we have felt that this classic needs to be re-exposed to the reading public in bite-size pieces that can be digested more quickly than the original 1885 publication of 400 pages.
Starting with the first Chapter of the original book, we have elected to submit just a bit-of-history-at-a-time via Kindle eBooks, and each sentence is packed with information.
Having started last month with the discovery and exploration of the southern Pacific Ocean in chapter I, we continue now with Chapter II: