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Juan Bautista de Anza and his 18th Century Expeditions to “Alta California” 1774 -1776. Archives. Travel diaries and letters written by Juan Bautista de Anza, ...
From The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest by Herbert E. Bolton (Yale University Press, 1921) (1736–88). Spanish military commander and explorer Juan Bautista de Anza traveled the first overland route from the Sonoran Desert to the coast of California.
Juan Bautista De Anza, the man from whom De Anza College takes its name, was a Spanish military officer and governor of the province of New Mexico. He is most well known for establishing a land route between what is now Arizona and "Alta California," the Spanish name for the area north of the Baja peninsula.
Mar 28, 2020 · On March 28, 1776, Basque New-Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza was the first to reach the San Francisco Bay by land. De Anza was the first European to establish an overland route from Mexico, through the Sonoran Desert, to the Pacific coast of California.
Juan Bautista de Anza (he spelled it Anssa; his son of the same name spelled it Anza) was the eldest son and second child of Antonio de Anza (1666-1737), the town pharmacist, and Lucia de Sassoeta (1658-1735).
May 31, 2024 · Access the journals written by Juan Bautista de Anza, Pedro Font, and Francisco Garcés. Research additional information with this interactive study environment on Spanish exploration and colonization of Alta California from 1769-79.
In 1773, Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Tubac Presidio in Sonora (now southern Arizona) was commissioned by the Viceroy of New Spain, to find an overland route from Sonora to California. This land route would be a more reliable means for supplying the Spanish outposts in California than the current method of resupply by ship.
