Fathers Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Dominguez seek a new route from New Mexico to California and explore Utah.
[Source: History to Go, Trappers, Traders and Explorers, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html]
the leg of the route they explored (2 catholic priests & 7 other men), that today is the present state of Utah, occurred from Sep.11 to Oct.15, 1776.
ReplyDelete[Source: The Dominguez-Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776, edited by Ted J. Warner, University of Utah Press, 1995, pp.51,97.]