North with de Anza
By: Dorothy Ward Erskine ; illustrated by Hubert Buel.
Contributors: Buel, Hubert, ill.; Erskine, Dorothy Ward.
Edition: University of New Mexico Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell company
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1693-1740 -- 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.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published under the title: Big ride. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1958.