Web de Anza provides students and scholars with primary source documents and multimedia resources covering Juan Bautista de Anza's two overland expeditions from the Sonoran desert to northern California, leading to the colonization of San Francisco in 1776.

The life and times Juan Bautista de Anza, the first European to establish an overland route from Mexico, through the Sonoran Desert, to the Pacific coast of California.

Juan Bautista de Anza Son of Juan Bautista de Anza (presidial captain) and Maria Rosa Bezerra Nieto of Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico Grandson of Antonio de Anza (pharmacyst) and Lucia de Sassoeta of Hernani, Guipuzcoa, Spain Grandson of Antonio Bezerra Nieto (presidial captain) and Gregoria Gomez de Silva of Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico Born July 1736, possibly at Fronteras but more likely at ...

Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail, from Mexico to San Francisco, the story of and the history behind one of Americas National Trails ...