Erskine, Dorothy Ward.

North with de Anza / Dorothy Ward Erskine ; illustrated by Hubert Buel. - University of New Mexico Press pbk. ed. - New York : Thomas Y. Crowell company, [2004?]. - xi, 207 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Originally published under the title: Big ride. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1958.

As part of a two thousand mile expedition to settle northern California in the eighteenth century, twelve-year-old Pedro Peralta travels from Mexico and faces such dangers as an Apache attack and the treacherous Colorado River.

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Anza Juan Bautista de 16931740 --Fiction


Voyages and travels--Mexico--Fiction
Voyages and travels--Southwest New--Fiction
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
Explorers--Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest New--Fiction


California--History--to 1846--Fiction
Mexico--Fiction
Southwest New--Discovery and exploration--Fiction

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