March 22 Exploration in 1774 Juan Bautista De Anza reached Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. He led 3 padres, 20 soldiers, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle, and 140 horses to establish a Spanish colony in Alta California. Government in 1852 Siskiyou County, on the Oregon border, was created from Shasta and Klamath Counties. An 1851 gold strike flooded […]