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Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest - Roberts, David
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In late July 1776, fathers Francisco Atanasio Dom�nguez and Francisco V�lez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to chart a route to the new Spanish missions in California. The Fransiscans planned to scout the country for mineral wealth and locate the Ute and Navajo tribes for conversion. In present-day Utah, however, the dangers of starvation and hypothermia forced them to turn back. By November the friars were reduced to survival mode: stymied by the raging Colorado River, they had to kill their horses for food. In ...

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Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest 2020, W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393358452

Trade paperback

Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest 2019, W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393652062

Hardcover