| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World. By Donald T. Garate. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xxiv, 323 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87417-505-4.)

Donald T. Garate's acquaintance with both Juan Bautista de Anzas, father and son, began in 1990, when he became chief historian and interpreter of Tumacácori National Historical Park. The research required for a living history production soon led him to the realization that available secondary sources, which did not include a biography, had projected an image of the two Anzas predicated more on legend than on fact. Unable to convince others to take on the writing of a much-needed biography, Garate, with assistance from the late Dr. James Officer, got to work. This volume, Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, is the first of three planned tomes on the two generations of Anzas, both of them enormously important yet understudied heroes of eighteenth-century northwestern Mexico. The next two volumes will focus on the second Juan Bautista de Anza, the elder Anza's sixth child. Garate, lamenting the absence of the Anzas in the secondary literature, has a goal of rendering the voluminous primary source material into a narrative biography.

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