Members of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition had just trekked through Spanish Fork Canyon on Sept. 23, 1776. Then they climbed ... reasonably accurate maps of the region. Additionally, in the ...

Retracing the extraordinary Fray Domínguez and Escalante southwestern expedition of 1776. Pasó por aquí…passed by here. Retracing the extraordinary Fray Domínguez and Escalante expedition of ...

In 1776, most of what is now ... Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, but the expedition has since been named for the 27-year-old Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, the group’s second in command, because ...

A Franciscan friar in his 20s at the time, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante was second in command of a group of 10 men that set off from Santa Fe in July 1776, charged with blazing a path to the new ...