Author : Academy of Pacific Coast History
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781331916420
Book Description
Excerpt from Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. 3: Publications The city of San Francisco was founded in 1776 by a body of settlers brought for the purpose from Sonora under the leadership of Lieutenant-colonel Juan Bautista de Anza. The chaplain of the expedition was Fray Pedro Font, who accompanied Anza from San Miguel de Horcasitas to San Francisco Bay and back, a journey which occupied from September 29, 1775, to June 1, 1776. The authorities for the incidents of the expedition consist of the diaries of Anza and Font, supplemented, at the beginning, by that of Fray Francisco Garces. Important and well known as they are, the diaries of Anza and Font have not hitherto been published in their original form, - unlike that of Garces which has appeared both in Spanish (Documentos para la Historia de México, segunda série, tomo I, Mexico, 1854, pp. 225-374.) and English (On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer: the Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garcés ... 1775-1776, translated by Elliott Coues, New York, 1900.). Excerpts from Father Font's diary, in translation, were included in the First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California, San Francisco, 1877, pp. 81-107. An extensive paraphrase of Anza's diary was published by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge in the Journal of American History, vols. 2 and 3, 1908-1909, and reprinted in his book. The Beginnings of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1912. Mr. Eldredge's narrative includes the details of the first expedition made by Anza over the route in 1774, as well as of the second in 1775 and 1776. The manuscript from which the present text has been printed came into the possession of the University of California in June, 1897, by gift of Mr. Collis P. Huntington, as a part of the "Robert E. Cowan Collection." At an earlier period it formed part of the materials gathered by General H. W. Halleck for his unfinished History of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.