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If
you like the Anza
illustrations, you'll
love this app for
iPhone. It is a
2010 calendar/clock
with my illustrations
of the 1775 Anza
expedition. I am
also in the process
of making a version
for Android phones.
Version
1.0 is now on sale at the iTunes
store!
The illustrations in this calendar cover the Anza expedition's northward
journey through what is now southern Arizona, from Tubac
to Casa Grande. The illustrations are in chronological order, but the
calendar months do not correspond to the dates of the expedition, since
they were in southern Arizona only for about a week in late October 1775.
JANUARY & FEBRUARY - Tubac Monday, October 23, 1775. - "All
the foregoing having been arranged and noted; Mass having been chanted
with all the solemnity possible on the Sunday preceding for the purpose
of invoking the divine aid in this expedition, all its members being
present; and the Most Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, under the advocation
of her Immaculate Conception, the Prince Señor San Miguel, and
San Francisco de Assís having been named as its protectors, at
eleven today the march was begun toward the north." - from Anza's
Journal
MARCH - CANOA CAMPSITE
"At the end of the afternoon today the wife of one of the soldiers
of the expedition began to feel the first pains of childbirth. We aided
her immediately with the shelter of a field tent and other things useful
in the case and obtainable on the road, and she successfully gave birth
to a very lusty boy at nine o’clock at night." - from Anza's
Journal
APRIL - "The number of people was so large that when we halted
the camp looked like a town, with the barracks which the soldiers made
with their capotes, blankets and branches, and especially with the field-tents,
which were thirteen in number, nine for the soldiers, one for the lieutenant,
one for Fathers Graces and Eixarch, one for me, and a larger and round
one for the Commander." - from Padre Font's Journal
MAY - Headed north along the Santa Cruz river.
"Ahead went four soldiers, as scouts to show the road. Leading the
vanguard went the commander, and then I came. Behind me followed the
people, men, women, and children, and the soldiers who went escorting
and caring for their families. The lieutenant with the rear guard concluded
the train. Behind him the pack mules usually followed; after them came
the loose riding animals; and finally all the cattle, so that altogether
they made up a very long procession." - from Padre Font's Journal
JUNE - Father Garces at San Xavier del Bac
JULY - The expedition passes by Sentinel Peak
AUGUST - TUQUISON CAMPSITE
" I observed the latitude of Tuquisón, and found it to be
32° 22'; so I say: One league north of the town of Tuquisón,
October 27, 1775, meridian altitude of the lower limb of the sun, 44° 26'. " from
Padre Font's Journal
SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER - PUERTO DEL AZOTADO
"At one o'clock in the afternoon we raised our train and set forth
on the march toward the north-northwest with some turns to the northwest;
and having traveled five leagues and as many hours over good terrain
with reasonably good pasturage , halt was made for the night in the neighborhood
of a small range which the Pimas call Tututac. At the time when we set
forth this afternoon two muleteers deserted us, and I entrusted their
apprehension to the justices of Tuczon , who came to bid me goodbye.
At eight o'clock at night six Pimas of the last pueblo came to camp and
brought one of the fugitives. I immediately had him given a beating,
and for this reason the soldiers called the place where we camped for
the night the plain of El Azotado" - from Anza's Journal
NOVEMBER - OIT PARS
"I issued a proclamation making known the penalties imposed by the Ordinance
on any one who should violate women, especially heathen , or steal their goods.
Under the same penalties I forbade anyone to raise arms against the heathen
in the country through which we pass, except in a case of necessity for the
defense of life, or at my orders, and likewise against any one who should spread
any report which might withdraw these heathen from the true religion and the
dominion of his Majesty . For this purpose and in order that such important
aims may be achieved, I likewise urged them to accord these people good treatment,
and exhorted them to set the example which we ought to show them by our customs,
and by our attendance upon all the acts of devotion which may offer themselves
in our expedition." - from Anza's Journal
DECEMBER - CASA GRANDE - Tuesday, October 31. -- "Because of the
last march this day was devoted to rest for everyone. About three leagues
from here there is an edifice of the ancient Indians , and I decided
to go to see it for the purpose of making an observation of its latitude,
as a notable site because of this circumstance. And so, at eleven o'clock
today we reached the edifice, and having taken all its measurements according
to the rules which we knew, they are set forth at the end of this diary
, together with a description of the ruin." - from Anza's Journal
LINKS:
for more information:
Pima County - http://www.pima.gov/areainfo/anza/
Web de Anza - http://anza.uoregon.edu/default.html
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