EVANS, JOHN DANIEL (1862 - 1943), early colonist in Patagonia
Date of birth: 1862
Date of death: 1943
Gender: Male
Occupation: early colonist in Patagonia
Area of activity: Travel and Exploration
Author: Richard Bryn Williams
Born in Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, 1862. He accompanied his parents who went out to the Welsh colony with the first batch of emigrants in 1865 and became one of the finest horsemen in the country, a daring adventurer, and an able leader, so much so, that he was known as ' The Baceano '. He went out several times to explore the pampas, the most celebrated occasion being in 1883 when his party was attacked by an unidentified Indigenous group in the Kel-Kein valley. His three companions were killed before he himself miraculously escaped on his Malacara pony (an incident which occurred in the context of the Argentine 'Conquest of the Desert', now identified by a number of scholars as an Indigenous genocide). He led a party to the Andes in 1885, when Cwm Hyfryd was found by the colonists; he was one of the first settlers there in 1891.
He spent the remainder of his life in Cwm Hyfryd and died there 6 March 1943 in his 81st year.
Authors
- Reverend Richard Bryn Williams, (1902 - 1981)
- Revised by the editorial team, 2024
- Eluned Morgan, Dringo'r Andes (Y Fenni 1904), 33-41
- W. M. Hughes, Ar Lannau'r Camwy, 74-86
- R. Bryn Williams, Cymry Patagonia (Aberystwyth 1942), 98-105
- Straeon Patagonia (Aberystwyth 1946), 77-105
- Transactions of the Old Colwyn National Eisteddfod (1941), 87
- A.F. Tschiffely, This way southward the account of a journey through Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego (1940), 73-6, 296-8
- Geraldine Lublin, Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia (Cardiff 2017)
- Carolyne R. Larson (ed.), The Conquest of the Desert (Albuquerque 2020)
Sources
- Paul W. Birt, Bywyd a gwaith John Daniel Evans: El Baqueano (Llanrwst 2004)
Further reading
Published date: 2001
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