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 ...

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 ...

4, 1776 — that an expedition led by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante camped in ... and to explore and map lands north and west of the Colorado River.

On Aug. 8, 1776 ... proclaimed in Philadelphia. Dominguez was in charge of the trail-blazing expedition, but the middle school behind Walmart is named only for Escalante, who was 10 years younger ...

In the 1983 classic Blue Highways, author William Least Heat-Moon set about tracing America's backroads, printed in thin blue lines on the road map ... Dominguez led the expedition, Escalante ...

(AP) - Most people in Dolores have heard of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition, the Spanish explorers ... A copy of Pacheco’s 1776 map is on display at the British Museum. Much of the Southwest ...

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 ...

As America’s founders gathered in Philadelphia in 1776, two Franciscans named Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Francisco Silvestre Velez de Escalante ... first European map of what is now ...

5, 1776. Near a place that would be named Una ... Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante halted their expedition for the night. The Franciscan priests and their ...

When Franciscan friars Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante set off on their 1776 expedition ... was unexplored territory, and the maps and documentation they produced were ...