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]
[Source: The Dominguez-Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776, edited by Ted J. Warner, translated by Fray Angelico Chavez, U. of U. Press, 1995]
ReplyDeleteTheir expedition started from Santa Fe on July 29, 1776 and returned there on Jan.2, 1777.
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