Mission San Juan Bautista

by Allison Stark Draper

Published 16 September 1999
Discusses the mission at San Juan Bautista from its founding in 1797 to the present day, including the reasons for Spanish colonization in California and the effects of colonization on the Mutsun (a tribe of the Costanoan) Indians.

Discusses the founding, building, operation, and closing of the Spanish mission in California's Valley of the Moon and its role in California history.