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Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
1995, c1976
Physical Desc
xxii, 152 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, two Spanish friars, who were tasked in 1776 with the goal of forging a route from a mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to a mission in Monterrey, California, and of locating sites for new missions along the way-to convert Indian "heathens," "barbarians," and "infidels." Domínguez was in his mid-thirties, but Escalante was only about twenty-five years old. The two, with a...
2) 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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