Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail follows the 1,200-mile overland route taken by Anza with 240 settlers and 1,000 herd of cattle from Arizona to California in 1776. Read more about Laws ...

Of the 30 families who followed Juan Bautista de Anza north from Mexico in 1776 to establish a settlement in the San Francisco Bay, nearly a third were of mixed African, Native American and ...

Juan Bautista de Anza: The King’s Governor in New Mexico by Carlos R. Herrera, University of Oklahoma Press, 320 pages New Mexicans have always had an independent streak, born of their desert ...

Summary Portrait of Juan Bautista de Anza seated on a rearing horse. He holds the horse's reins in his proper left hand and reaches back with his proper right hand. On his head he wears a ...

But it was just us. In Riverside’s Martha McLean-Anza Narrows Park, Steve Lech points toward the point where Juan Bautista de Anza crossed the Santa Ana River in 1774.

Founded in 1967, De Anza College was named after Juan Bautista de Anza — an 18th century Spanish military officer who led two expeditions to California.

For the record… Don Juan Pablo Grijalva, soldier, settler, rancher and pioneer — came to California with the Anza expedition in 1775. At that time there were only five missions, two presidios ...

By combining administrative history with narrative biography, Herrera shows that Juan Bautista de Anza was more than an explorer. Devoted equally to the Spanish empire and to the North American region ...

Juan Bautista de Anza traveled through Riverside on March 20-21, 1774, 250 years ago. He was the first outsider to document a visit. (Photo by David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) ...