Some first editions are a long time coming. Jacobo Sedelmayr was a Jesuit missionary to the Pima Indians of northern Mexico and southern Arizona in the middle of the 18th century. From 1744-1751, he wrote a series of letters and reports about his mission. It took 200 years for these to finally be gathered together and published, in Jacobo Sedelmayr Missionary, Frontiersman, Explorer in Arizona and Sonora, published by the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society in 1955. Interestingly, Clark points out that Sedelmayr's reports show no indication of resentment among the Pimas, who would engage in a bloody revolt in late 1751. Around 100 Spanish settlers and a few missionaries would be killed before it was put down. $75.

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