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Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World. By Donald T. Garate. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xxi + 323 pp. Illustrations, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
      The Juan Bautista de Anzas, father and son, shaped the history of western North America far more than many more famous historical figures. In the first of three proposed volumes, historian Don Garate sets out to tell their saga beginning with Anza the Elder, an adventurous young Basque who sailed to the New World at age nineteen and ended up fighting Apaches and Seris in Spanish Sonora. Mining entrepreneur, rancher, consummate frontiersman, Anza exemplified the Spanish frontier military elite at its best. Garate does him justice in this thoroughly documented, culturally perceptive biography. . . .
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