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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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