“Salvatierra, Venégas and the rest have furnished a copious account of the Jesuit period; Palóu and his associates have left satisfactory material for the Franciscan occupation, but the Dominicans have left no account of their labors. It would appear they accomplished nothing in California worth recording, even in their own estimation.” So wrote esteemed American historian Hubert Howe Bancroft in his “History of the North Mexican States and Texa…