Juan Bautista De Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740

by Donald T. Garate

The first biography of Juan Bautista de Anza, the eighteenth-century Basque immigrant who became a silver miner, cattle rancher, explorer of the West, and commander of the cavalry in Sonora, Mexico. For this comprehensive biography of Anza, Garate spent more than ten years researching archives in Spain and the Americas. The result is a striking and important account of the Spanish borderlands and the hardy, ambitious colonists who populated them. The Basque Series

384 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2003