With Anza To California, 1775-1776. The Journal Of Pedro Font, O.F.M.

BROWN, ALAN K. [TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY].

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Company, 2011, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, 464 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, plates, maps, footnotes, appendix, bibliography, index. This is Volume I in the EARLY CALIFORNIA COMMENTARIES SERIES, which is projected to comprise ten to fifteen volumes. The series offers carefully edited primary sources, most never before published, relating to the history of California during the Spanish and Mexican eras (1697-1848). Juan Bautista de Anza led the Spanish colonizing expedition in 1775-1776 that opened a trail from Arizona to California and established a presidio at San Francisco Bay. Franciscan missionary Fray Pedro Font accompanied Anza. As chaplain and geographer, Font kept a detailed daily record of the expedition's progress that today is considered one of the fundamental documents of exploration in the American Southwest. As new in dust jacket.

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