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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