Like the park name itself, a historical marker at De Anza Park in Ontario pays tribute to Mexican expeditionary leader Juan Bautista de Anza, who journeyed near that site 250 years ago. (Photo by ...

I returned there on my own. A statue in Riverside’s Newman Park depicts Juan Bautista de Anza, paying tribute to his 1774 expedition through the area on his way to Mission San Gabriel.

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) ...

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 ...

And the nearby Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail is open for hikers eager to get outdoors in a healthy, socially-distant way. But here are three ways to get a taste from home.

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 ...

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 ...

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 […] ...

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 ...

Central Colorado owes much to Juan Bautista de Anza. In 1779, Anza led an 800-man army through the San Luis Valley and over Poncha Pass during what would prove to be a successful campaign against ...

Interstate 580, the Oakland Raiders, Casper's Hot Dogs - everything that is the essence of the East Bay started with a five-day expedition in 1776. That's when Juan Bautista de Anza and a few ...