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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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) ...