With Anza to California, 1775-1776: The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. (Volume 1) (Early California C

This new edition includes Font's recently discovered field journal—the actual notes he wrote on the trail. Previously published only in Spanish, this journal contains many details and perspectives not found in the two "official" versions that Font prepared after the expedition. It supplants the 1930 edition prepared by Herbert Eugene Bolton, which was based solely on Font's "official" texts.

With Anza to California, 1775–1776 interweaves and correlates for the first time all existing texts of Font's journal and incorporates the latest research on this pathbreaking expedition. Editor Alan K. Brown has rendered a more accurate translation, allowing us to relive the journey through Font's eyes as the friar presents a panorama of history, geography, and ecology. Font also describes the interaction between Hispanic settlers and Native peoples—revealing Spanish relations with the Quechans on the Colorado River and the Kumeyaay uprising in San Diego.

Featuring maps and relief profiles drawn by Font, along with new maps prepared by Brown, this edition includes an extensive introduction and copious explanatory notes. It is the most complete account of the Anza expedition and a foundational primary source in California and Southwest history.

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• Contest for California: From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest (Volume 2) (Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series)
• Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877 (Volume 1) (Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series)
• The Chumash World at European Contact
• A description of distant roads: Original journals of the first expedition into California, 1769-1770
• The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
• History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California
• The Call to California : The Epic Journey of the Portola-Serra Expedition in 1769