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1) In search of Dominquez & Escalante: photographing the 1776 Spanish expedition through the Southwest
Author
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill., maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On 29 July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestro Velez de Escalante embarked on an expedition to seek an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey, California. Although the Spaniards did not reach their final destination, the expedition is widely regarded as one of the great explorations in western U.S. history for its documentation of the land and Native people in the Four Corners. The group -- including cartographer...
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