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Juan Bautista de Anza
Donald T. Garate
其他書名
Basque Explorer in the New World
出版University of Nevada Press, 2003
主題Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & ExplorersHistory / North AmericaHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)History / Expeditions & DiscoveriesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / European Studies
ISBN08741750549780874175059
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sTB6AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 first comprehensive 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 a