Bernard L. Fontana

Bernard (Bunny) L. Fontana was a renowned authority on the history and anthropology of the Southwest. He worked at the University of Arizona as a lecturer in the anthropology department, an ethnologist at the Arizona State Museum, and a field historian in the library. He helped create the Southwestern Mission Research Center at the University of Arizona in 1965 and co-founded the Patronato San Xavier, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the restoration of Mission San Xavier del Bac. He passed away in 2016.

Bernard L. Fontana (15 Titles)

Bernard L. Fontana

Arizona Place Names

Baja California Missions

In the Footsteps of the Padres

Blessingway

With Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.

Borderman

Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt

Friar Bringas Reports to the King

Methods of Indoctrination on the Frontier of New Spain, 1796–97

A Gift of Angels

The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac

Massacre on the Gila

An Account of the Last Major Battle Between American Indians, with Reflections on the Origin of War

The Mountainway of the Navajo

Of Earth and Little Rain

The Papago Indians

Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Múmkidag)

Requiem for the Santa Cruz

An Environmental History of an Arizona River

The Sierra Pinacate

Sonora

A Description of the Province

Tarahumara

Where Night is the Day of the Moon

Trails to Tiburón

The 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W J McGee

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