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Dominguez Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado Utah AZ & N Mex 1776
Contributor(s): Warner, Ted J. (Author)
ISBN: 0874804485     ISBN-13: 9780874804485
Publisher: University of Utah Press
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Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2004
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Annotation: The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown and to find a route from Santa Fe to Monterey, California.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
Dewey: 978.902
LCCN: 94034187
Lexile Measure: 1630
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.07" W x 8.99" (0.59 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Arizona
- Geographic Orientation - Colorado
- Geographic Orientation - New Mexico
- Geographic Orientation - Utah
 
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Translated by Fray Angelico Chavez, Edited by Ted J. Warner

Western History

The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante's most remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown and to find a route from Santa Fe to Monterey, California.
Escalante's journal wonderfully describes every detail of the rugged and scenic country through which they journeyed, along the qualities and customs of its inhabitants. Working as far north as present-day Provo, Utah, the expedition finally returned south. An approaching severe winter and mishaps among the maze of the Grand Canyon forced the party to return to Santa Fe by way of the Hopi pueblos.
This journal provides a fascinating account of over a thousand miles of wilderness exploration.