Hunting expedition to the Valley of the Bears
- When
- 1772
- Where
- la Cañada de los Osos (Valley of the Bears)
Facing starvation at Monterey, Pedro Fages led a hunting expedition to la Cañada de los Osos to obtain food for the presidio and mission.
In 1772, the people of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo faced starvation owing to a lack of supplies. Commander Pedro Fages, a member of the Portolá expedition, led a hunting expedition to la Cañada de los Osos ("Bears Canyon") to bring back food. Serra, remembering stories of the "valley of the bears," sent the expedition to San Luis Obispo to help feed the Spanish and neophytes in Monterey.
Sources
- San Luis Obispo, California Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22
- Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-04
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.