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Max Kurillo

Max Kurillo has been researching, writing, and lecturing about the California missions for many decades and has published several books, articles, and booklets about the missions. He worked with and appeared with Huell Howser on the California Gold production of “The Bells of El Camino Real,” and appeared on KECT (Los Angeles) and KPBS (San Diego) with Howser discussing the mission bells. Kurillo has visited all the 48 missions in Baja and Alta California. He won the Native Daughters of the Gold West “California Image Award” for his work documenting El Camino Real. He has published in the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly, the American Bell Association’s Bell Tower, and the California Missions Foundation’s Boletín. California State Parks featured a panel display entitled “California Historic Corridor” based on his work and photographs. Kurillo lives in the San Diego area.

  • California's El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells

    California’s El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells: Second Edition

    Author: Max Kurillo

    California’s El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells is the first book to trace the history, development and preservation of this historic West Coast transportation corridor. The “King’s Highway” would …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 226
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5
    • ISBN: 9781532318948
    • Year Published: 2016
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 28.95 Add to cart
  • Coloring California Missions

    Coloring California Missions

    Author: Max Kurillo

    California’s 21 missions, from San Diego to Sonoma, were constructed between 1769 and 1823 and were spaced a day’s ride from each other, measured as 50 kilometers or 31 miles. …

    • Categories: California: General, Children/Young Adult, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
    • Format: softcover
    • Pages: 96
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
    • ISBN: 9781941384381
    • Year Published: 2018
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 9.95 Add to cart
  • Old Mission Series

    Old Mission Series: Mission San Diego De Alcala

    Author: Max Kurillo

    The Old Mission Series is intended to be a brief look into the missions of our Spanish and Mexican history and heritage as provided to us by past and present historians. …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 18
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
    • ISBN: 9781532341564
    • Year Published: 2017
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 5.00 Read more
  • Old Mission Series

    Old Mission Series: Mission San Luis Rey

    Author: Max Kurillo

    The Old Mission Series is intended to be a brief look into the missions of our Spanish and Mexican history and heritage as provided to us by past and present historians. …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 18
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
    • ISBN: 9781532350283
    • Year Published: 2017
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 5.00 Read more
  • Old Mission Series

    Old Mission Series: Mission San Juan Capistrano

    Author: Max Kurillo

    The Old Mission Series is intended to be a brief look into the missions of our Spanish and Mexican history and heritage as provided to us by past and present historians. …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 18
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
    • ISBN: 9781532350306
    • Year Published: 2017
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 5.00 Read more
  • Old Mission Series

    Old Mission Series: Mission San Gabriel Arcangel

    Author: Max Kurillo

    The Old Mission Series is intended to be a brief look into the missions of our Spanish and Mexican history and heritage as provided to us by past and present historians. …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 18
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
    • ISBN: 9781532350290
    • Year Published: 2017
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 5.00 Read more
  • Old Missions of the Californias

    Old Missions of the Californias

    Authors: David KierMax Kurillo

    Following the success of their 2012 book, The Old Missions of Baja & Alta California, 1697-1834, Max Kurillo and David Kier have produced a revised and expanded edition in 2020, …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 163
    • Dimensions: 6 x 9
    • ISBN: 9781532350313
    • Year Published: 2020
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 20.95 Add to cart
  • Quick Guide to California Missions

    Quick Guide to California Missions

    Author: Max Kurillo

    Learn about all 21 California Missions with this handy fold out guide.

    • Categories: California: Central and Northern, California: General, California: Los Angeles/Orange County, California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
    • Format: Laminated Foldout Guide
    • Dimensions: Opens to 18.5” x 8.25”
    • ISBN: 9781941384428
    • Year Published: 2018
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
    $ 8.95 Add to cart
  • The Franciscan Missions of California, 1769-1823

    The Franciscan Missions of California, 1769-1823: A New Look at the 22 Franciscan Missions

    Author: Max Kurillo

    The California Franciscan missions comprise of a series of 22 religious missions (outposts) founded between 769 and 1832. The Franciscan missions examined in this book are located in the land …

    • Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 124
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
    • ISBN: 9781532332531
    • Year Published: 2017
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 18.95 Add to cart
  • The Wooden Bells of Mission San Buenaventura

    The Wooden Bells of Mission San Buenaventura

    Author: Max Kurillo

    While the intrigue and romance of bells have, for centuries, captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, the bells found in the museum of the mission in …

    • Categories: California: Los Angeles/Orange County, History/Lore/Native Americans.
    • Format: Softcover
    • Pages: 126
    • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
    • ISBN: 9781532327605
    • Year Published: 2016
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: M & E Books
    $ 18.95 Read more

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