Velez de Escalante, Silvestre

The Dominguez-Escalante journal Their expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776 Silvestre Velez de Escalante; Translated by Fray Angelico Chavez; Edited by Ted J. Warner - Provo, Utah Bringham Young University Press 1976 - 203 p.

English and Spanish.

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. This oversize edition includes nine pages of photographs and maps, plus an appendix containing the complete journal in its original Spanish.

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Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792 Diaries.
Domínguez, Francisco Atanasio, active 1776 Diaries.


Personal narratives

--Early works to 1800--Discovery and exploration

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