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 ...

Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime' In 1776, Franciscan friars Atanasio ... In his journal, Escalante made a note of the river's flow "west-southwest" and continued on. The note was accurate, but the map ...

Dominguez-Escalante Expedition Education ... in preparation of the 2026 celebration of the Dominguez and Escalante Expedition of 1776. The packets and website are a gift to the schoolchildren ...

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The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition left New Mexico on July 29, 1776, in an effort to establish an overland route between Santa Fe and Monterey, California. It took more than a month for this group ...

Spaniards were the first Europeans to encounter some of Utah’s indigenous residents during the Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776 ... evidence is all over the map. La Sierra de Sal, known ...

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 ...

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 ...

That was shortened in 1776 by the Dominguez–Escalante expedition to “Yuta.” “Yuta” was later further garbled by Utah’s Euro American conquerors like Brigham Young to “Utah.” ...