Juan Bautista de Anza : Basque explorer in the New World /

Juan Bautista de Anza : Basque explorer in the New World /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Garate, Donald T., 1950-
Imprint:	Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	The Basque series Basque series.
Subject:	Anza, Juan Bautista de, -- 1693-1740. Anza, Juan Bautista de, -- 1693-1740. Basques -- Southwest, New -- Biography. Explorers -- Southwest, New -- Biography. Explorers -- Spain -- Biography. Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New. Basques. Discoveries in geography -- Basque. Explorers. Frontier and pioneer life. Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration -- Basque. Southwest, New -- History -- To 1848. Southwest, New -- Biography. New Southwest. Spain. Electronic books. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126536

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ISBN:	0874175607 9780874175608 0874175054 9780874175059
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"The name of Juan Bautista de Anza the younger is a fairly familiar one in the contemporary Southwest because of the various streets, schools, and other places that bear his name. Few people, however, are familiar with his father, the elder Juan Bautista de Anza, whose activities were crucial to the survival of the tenuous and far-flung settlements of Spain's northernmost colonial frontier." "For this biography of the elder Anza, Donald T. Garate spent more than ten years researching archives in Spain and the Americas. The result is a lively, vividly drawn picture of the Spanish borderlands and the hardy, ambitious colonists who peopled them." "Anza was born in the Basque Country in 1693, a poor boy in a typical Basque village. Like so many of his contemporaries, he made his way as a young man to America, where he joined many of his Basque compatriots as part of Spain's colonial establishment. After working for a few years as a miner in Sonora, he became a soldier and spent the rest of his life protecting a vast and turbulent territory covering much of present-day Sonora and Arizona, as well as parts of Chihuahua, Texas, and New Mexico, struggling to maintain order among the settlers, establish trade routes, and pacify the numerous hostile Indian peoples."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Garate, Donald T., 1950- Juan Bautista de Anza. Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003 0874175054

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Summary:	Donald T. Garate presents the first biography of an eighteenth-century Basque immigrant who became a silver miner, cattle rancher, and commander of the cavalry in Sonora, Mexico.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index.
ISBN:	0874175607 9780874175608 0874175054 9780874175059