This illustrative bust was created by Henry Lion in 1927. The work of art is dedicated to Juan Bautista De Anza by the Native Sons of the Golden West and the Los Angeles Historical Society. A soldier and explorer, De Anza led the first Spanish settlers from the Mexican state of Sonora through Arizona and the San Carlos Pass far north to Monterey, California—a distance of some 1,700 miles. The expedition was actually two meandering trips that lasted several years, though the plaque notes 1775 and reads simply: “Done for…
